Kenyan President William Ruto, the East African Community (EAC) chair, convened a virtual summit on 29 January to discuss the ...

M23 rebels fighting the Congolese army in eastern Congo are using advanced weapons and equipment similar to those used by the ...

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United States urged the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday to ...

East African leaders are planning a presidential summit to try to resolve the crisis. Kenyan President Ruto announced that ...

The Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) on Thursday, January 30, graduated 531 Special Operations Force personnel, who completed 11 months of specialized combat training course at the Nasho Basic Military ...

According to AFP, between 500 and 1,000 Rwandan special forces reinforced M23 near Goma, while other sources estimate up to 4,000 troops. Despite support from mercenaries, Burundian troops ...

They said these Rwandan special forces were there to train and support the rebels, and they did not interact with M23 regulars. Rwanda's ally Uganda, unhappy about another rebel group in DR Congo ...

The Rwanda-backed armed group M23 vowed Thursday to "continue the march of liberation" to the DR Congo capital Kinshasa, as its fighters made further advances in the mineral-rich east of the country.

Captured M23 fighters said that the Rwandans were known as the "Friendly Force", with the experts' December report saying the English term was "generically used" even when interviewees were speaking ...

Protesters in Kinshasa, the capital of Democratic Republic of Congo, have been burning portraits of Rwanda's president and tearing up Rwandan flags as M23 rebels have taken control of most the ...

The 16-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) said it will hold a special ... a peacekeeping force and it has no place in this situation". M23 fighters and Rwandan troops entered ...