M23 is the most powerful of the roughly 100 armed groups fighting for control in the country’s east, which holds valuable mineral deposits that are critical to much of the world’s technology.

He has cast his lot with the rebel M23. From wherever he had been, he landed in Kigali and proceeded to Goma City which is under the rebels. He is said to have expressed support for the rebellion.

The M23 rebellion is transforming a borderland insurgency into a direct challenge to Tshisekedi’s position. Complicating matters is the ambiguous role of regional actors. Uganda has expanded its ...

Previous attempts to mediate between Congo and M23, including by Angola and Kenya, have stalled, with both sides pulling out of scheduled negotiations at the last minute. This week’s talks in ...

Rwanda marks 1994 genocide amid tensions over M23 rebellion in DRC. Rwanda is commemorating the 1994 genocide, in which 800,000 people, most of them from the Tutsi ethnic group, were massacred by ...

The convicted war criminal, Thomas Lubanga, based in Uganda, has declared the formation of a new rebel movement - the Convention for the Popular Revolution - aimed at overthrowing the government ...

This, officials argue, is to formalise extraction of ores in the troubled eastern part of the country where Kinshasa accuses Rwanda of fuelling an armed rebellion to profit from the wealth illegally.

The ongoing crisis in eastern DRC is not just about M23 or Rwanda’s alleged involvement—it is part of a larger geopolitical struggle that has plagued the region for decades.

Under the Alliance Fleuve Congo – the political wing of the M23 rebellion – this goal later expanded into a broader national agenda aiming to overthrow the regime in Kinshasa. Whether this ...

The M23 rebellion stems partly from Rwanda’s decades-long concern that other rebels — ethnic Hutus opposed to Rwanda’s government and accused of participating in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide ...

The M23 had become increasingly active in DR Congo's east, stating that they were fighting to protect Tutsi rights and that the government had failed to honour a peace deal signed in 2009.