The DR Congo government and the M23 group on Wednesday issued a landmark joint statement saying they had agreed to halt fighting in the east of the country while they work towards a permanent truce.

The agreement was signed by the DR Congo's and Rwanda's foreign ministers in the presence of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have signed an agreement ...

Central to their campaign is the assertion that ethnic Tutsis living in DR Congo are being persecuted. Digging into the status of Tutsis in DR Congo - and how it relates to the M23 uprising - is a ...

The Americans, Marcel Malanga, Tyler Thompson Jr., and Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun were among 37 people sentenced to death by a military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC ...

Also, Goma was and still is very important for the economy and logistics of eastern DR Congo.Apart from the loss of life, its seizure by the M23 has disrupted the flow of money in the region ...

Hundreds of thousands of civilians have been displaced in recent months as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have seized swathes of mineral-rich territory in eastern DR Congo. After losing territory ...