Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo’s major city of Goma have targeted relatives of fleeing Congolese soldiers. That's according to the soldier's families.

Congolese people displaced following recent clashes between the M23 rebels and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC), leave the camps and return to their homes after the M23 rebels instructed them to vacate the camps in the outskirts of Goma,

Rwanda-backed rebels have captured two major cities in Congo’s mineral-rich east after a major escalation in their yearslong fighting against Congolese forces. The M23 rebels captured Goma and Bukavu

Rwanda security officials check people crossing from Congo in Gyseny, Rwanda, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, following M23 rebels’ advances into eastern Congo’s capital Goma. (Yuhi Irakiza/AP) Rwanda-backed M23 rebels captured a strategic airport in the Democratic Republic of Congo,

Defeated soldiers from the Southern Africa Development Community’s (SADC) peace mission were seen leaving Goma by road without their equipment or uniforms.

R ulers of the Democratic Republic of Congo have rarely, if ever, fully controlled the east of Africa’s second-largest country. Kinshasa, its capital, is 1,500km from the provinces (South Kivu, North Kivu and Ituri) that border the other Great Lakes countries (Burundi,

Mu gihe urugendo ruva ku bigo byabo i Goma rwatangiye mu gitondo ku wa mbere, mu ijoro nibwo umurongo w'imodoka zabo wagaragaye werekeza i Kigali.

Congo’s largest church organizations met Wednesday with Rwanda-backed rebels in the country’s east in the latest push for peace and dialogue after weekslong fighting that saw the rebels seize the region’s largest city of Goma.

M23 rebels backed by Rwanda took the city of Goma in a bloody battle. This weekend, the group entered the gold-trading center of Bukavu in eastern Congo after government soldiers fled.

Erasto Bahati Musanga, the rebel-appointed governor of North-Kivu province announced that Goma and Bukavu’s ports will reopen Tuesday

Rwanda is facing global pressure over allegations it supports the M23 group which, since January, has captured swathes of eastern Congo including the cities of Goma and Bukavu, an

Umugwi witwaje ibigwanisho wa M23 uri mu ntambara mu buseruko bwa Repuburika ya Demokarasi ya Congo uherutse gufata ibisagara bibiri bikomeye, Goma na Bukavu, imirwa mikuru y'intara za Kivu ya ruguru