Critical minerals factor into the fight.

Congolese troops with support from Burundi's army appeared on Friday to be holding back a push south by Rwandan-backed rebels ...

The U.N. says Rwanda-backed rebels are expanding their presence in eastern Congo after capturing the region’s major city ...

The worsening conflict in eastern Congo has led to a surge in human rights violations including summary executions, the ...

A Rwandan spokesperson denies the charges, saying it is trying to prevent the conflict spilling over.

In 2012, when M23 rebels appeared poised to seize control of a major city in eastern Congo, western countries suspended aid ...

Rwanda-backed rebels who have captured eastern Congo’s largest city say they plan to take their rebellion to the capital and ...

In Democratic Republic of Congo this week, Rwandan-backed M23 rebels seized Goma, the country's largest eastern city. A force ...

What has been a slow-burn crisis in eastern DRC has again exploded into the open. Kagame appears to have calculated that a ...

It has been a humiliating week for nearly 300 Romanian mercenaries recruited to fight on the side of the army in the ...

The rebel leader whose fighters have captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, has vowed to ...

Deep in the heart of a lush green forest, an excavator is hard at work, turning over the earth in search of gold. The ...