(Photo: YouTube Screenshot/Vatican Media) Pope Francis called on the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square in Rome to pray for peace in North Kivu, as the M23 armed group and the Rwandan army ...

The Rwandan-backed M23 took control of the provincial capital Bukavu over a week ago, after capturing Goma, the capital of ...

UNITED NATIONS - The resumption of fighting in an eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) province has killed and ...

U.K. authorities are punishing Rwanda over its support of the rebels who now control two major cities in eastern Congo.

Burundi troops -- allies of Kinshasa -- were still deploying Tuesday in east DR Congo, as the UK announced it was suspending ...

DR Congo's prime minister said Monday that "more than 7,000" people have been killed in the east of the country since January ...

Rebels advanced on several fronts in DR Congo's volatile east Friday as the UN Security Council for the first time called on Rwanda to stop backing the M23 group and halt the bloodshed. The group, ...

During and following the genocide, nearly two million Hutu refugees crossed the Congolese border, mostly settling in refugee camps in the North Kivu and ... the border. Rwanda waged the First ...

The crucial ferries were suspended for several days due to fierce fighting between the army and M23 rebels in the region.

People board the first boat leaving Bukavu heading to Goma on Lake Kivu since the eastern Congo city was taken ... of the U.N ...

The Rwandan shore of Lake Kivu offers leisure and relaxation. Across the border in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the same ...

Residents say Rwanda-backed rebels appear to be heading toward a third major city in eastern Congo. International pressure ...