The Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC), which include the M23 rebel group, has announced the appointment of a new governor for South Kivu province in eastern DR Congo, just over two weeks after its fighters ...

Marcus Bachmann, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) head of programmes for South Kivu province, explains the situation in this part of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as the conflict evolves.

Catholics and Protestants in Kinshasa attended Sunday church services under heavy police protection after supporters of ...

Neither Rwandan President Paul Kagame nor his Congolese counterpart Felix Tshisekedi attended Friday's AU meeting.

The humanitarian emergency in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has deteriorated sharply with serious human ...

LIVE: M23 Captures South Kivu’s Capital Bukavu as DR Congo Soldiers Flee | Firstpost Africa Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have ...

The AFC/M23 recruits with complete transparency, rebel spokesperson Lawrence Kanyuka, said in a post on X, on Friday, February 28, a day after "a terrorist attack" at a rebel rally in Bukavu, the ...

One reason the M23 and Rwandan Defence Forces were able to advance into South Kivu quickly is that in January, they had ...

AFC spokesman Victor Tesongo told CNN Friday rebels were working to “install a new administration” in Goma and advance further into South Kivu and Kinshasa. M23 leader Corneille Nangaa also ...

They have said they will march to Congo's capital, Kinshasa, which is nearly 1,000 ... that 52 women were raped by Congolese troops in South Kivu, including alleged reports of gang rape ...

At least 11 people have died and 65 others injured after explosions hit a rally being held by M23 rebel group leaders in the captured city of Bukavu, eastern DR Congo.