Fighters from the Kigali-backed M23 Movement have been locked ... on its neighbour for its hand in helping the M23 close in on Goma. Already backed by several thousand Rwandan soldiers, the ...

Kigali accuses the Congolese military and its allies of being in league with the remnants of forces responsible for Rwanda’s 1994 genocide. Civilians in Goma, some of whom had already fled the ...

raising the threat that clashes in Goma will spiral into a regional conflict. The “recent withdrawal of Congolese diplomats from Kigali and expulsion of Rwandan diplomats from Kinshasa,” along ...

GOMA, Congo — Congo has severed diplomatic ... Associated Press writer Ignatius Ssuuna in Kigali, Rwanda, contributed to this report.

Kigali, in turn, alleges that Kinshasa collaborates ... an allegation the DRC rejects. M23 holds Goma Van de Perre said Goma is “firmly under control at the moment of M23.” ...

The government called the capture of Goma a declaration of war and refused even to enter talks with M23. Kigali and Kinshasa have drawn lines in the sand, and regional groups appear unable to halt ...

In Goma itself, M23 were presenting themselves ... including a meeting of East African heads of state and a visit to Kinshasa and Kigali by France's foreign minister. Nevertheless, both Tshisekedi ...

In Goma, a hub for displaced people ... They then boarded coaches to Kigali. M23 is the latest ethnic Tutsi-led, Rwandan-backed insurgency to fight in Congo since the aftermath of the genocide ...

Kenyan President William Ruto said Monday that the presidents of Rwanda and Congo have agreed to attend a meeting Wednesday to discuss developments in eastern Congo, where M23 rebels say they have ...

Map: The Economist Goma is more than 1,500km east of Kinshasa, Congo’s capital, but just 100km west of Kigali, the Rwandan one. It is the hub of what Mr Kagame sees as Rwanda’s sphere of ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is preparing to finalize a minerals deal with the United States by the end of June.