DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The government of Congo will hold peace talks next week in Angola with the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group that has captured key areas of Congo’s mineral-rich east ...

In January, the Rwanda-backed group captured key areas of Congo’s mineral-rich east, escalating tensions.View on euronews ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Congo’s government and the M23 rebel group will hold peace talks on March 18, mediator Angola says.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. M23 rebels enter the centre of east Congo’s second-largest city, Bukavu, and take control of the South ...

In February, M23 seized Bukavu, eastern Congo’s second biggest city. Congo President Felix Tshisekedi was in Angola on Tuesday to discuss the possibility of peace talks.

The M23 rebels forcibly removed at least 130 sick and wounded men from two hospitals in eastern DR Congo, the UN reported on Monday. On 28 February, the Rwanda-backed group stormed CBCA Ndosho ...

LUANDA, March 12 (Reuters) - Direct peace talks between the Democratic Republic of Congo and M23 rebels will begin in the Angolan capital on March 18, Angola's presidency said in a statement on ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels advanced on Sunday into Bukavu, the second-largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, witnesses said, as the British government warned the advance risks ...

(Nairobi) – The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has unlawfully ordered tens of thousands of displaced people to leave the camps around Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights ...

Last month, 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.

FILE - M23 rebels enter the centre of east Congo's second-largest city, Bukavu, and take control of the South Kivu province administrative office, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Janvier ...