The M23 rebel movement has rejected a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report accusing it of executing at least 21 civilians in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma in February, branding the claims as fabricated ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The bloody conflict in the eastern DRC took a dramatic turn this week when Kigali-backed fighters from the M23 claimed to take control of Goma in North Kivu province before advancing southwards in ...

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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...