Mongabay News on MSN6d
The environmental toll of the M23 conflict in eastern DRC (Analysis)
By Fergus O’Leary SimpsonJoel MasselinkLara Collart The resurgence of the M23 (March 23 movement) rebel group has once again ...
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Rwanda-backed M23 welcomes talks to end DR Congo conflict
The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group cautiously welcomed Thursday the prospect of direct negotiations with the Congolese government to end the conflict in the volatile eastern Democratic Republic of ...
Al Jazeera English25d
DRC rebels promise security after seizing Bukavu in country’s east
Bukavu is the latest city to fall into the hands of the M23, also known as the March 23 Movement, which in recent months has seized swathes of territory in the eastern DRC after again taking up ...
Daily Post Nigeria23d
DRC crisis worsens as M23 intensify violence, slaughter children
linked to the M23’s advance in North and South Kivu. It was gathered that hundreds of thousands of people in the Eastern DRC have so far been displaced with 10,000 to 15,000 fleeing into Burundi ...
Washington Examiner26d
Why is war breaking out in the Congo?
In April 2012, hundreds of former CNDP fighters defected, arguing that the DRC government failed to uphold the March 23 agreement, which would become their new group’s name. M23 quickly ...
Al Jazeera English29d
As the DRC battles Rwanda-backed M23, what’s needed to stop the fighting?
M23 had declared a ceasefire only days earlier, but resumed attacks this week. For years, Rwanda has been accused by the United Nations, the DRC and other countries of funding and supplying M23 ...
Voice of America20d
Motivations, ambitions of Congo’s M23 rebels unclear, analysts say
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni recently said he is ready to assist with peace initiatives in the DRC. M23 leaders have said they plan to go all the way to Kinshasa. “We ... do not know ...
Radio France Internationale25d
DRC: South Kivu governor confirms Congo's M23 rebels are in Bukavu city
The M23 rebel group entered the outskirts of Bukavu, a city of 1.3 million in eastern DRC, in mid-February 2025. This happened two weeks after Goma, another city in the region, came under the ...
Radio France Internationale22d
UN accuses M23 of committing 'summary executions' of children in DRC
UN experts say Rwanda effectively controls M23 and has at least 4,000 troops fighting alongside it. The DRC government accuses Rwanda of "expansionist ambitions" and says it is stealing vast ...
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Fighting in Africa’s mineral-rich DRC killed over 3,000 in less than 2 weeks. Here’s how your phone plays a part
For decades, DRC, a Central African nation of more than 100 million people, has grappled with bloody militia violence, including ethnic and resource-driven armed rebellion by M23 and dozens of ...
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Rebels seen in center of key DR Congo city after claiming takeover
The DRC government has not confirmed the claimed takeover. CNN has approached authorities for comment on the rebels’ claims. Bukavu resident Elie Cirhuza told CNN he saw M23 fighters on the ...