UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Rwandan-backed rebels now control large parts of eastern Congo and threaten to expand their offensive west into two neighboring provinces, the top U.N. official in the ...

The formal establishment of an organization to manage Lake Kivu and the Ruzizi River basin, shared by Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, was never formally ratified by its member countries. That left the once ...

Night - Cloudy. Winds WNW. The overnight low will be 59 °F (15 °C). Mostly sunny with a high of 80 °F (26.7 °C). Winds variable at 3 to 9 mph (4.8 to 14.5 kph). Thunderstorms today with a high ...

FILE - M23 rebels enter the centre of east Congo's second-largest city, Bukavu, and take control of the South Kivu province administrative ... week in Angola with the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel ...

Insecurity has disrupted everything,” said Dr. Serge Munyahu Cikuru, medical officer in charge of the Miti Murhesa health zone in South Kivu province’s Kabare territory, which the M23 also ...

Lake Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is bustling again with cargo and passenger boats. The lake was quiet for almost a month after rebels captured the port cities of Goma and Bukavu.

Reports emerging from frontline in Lubero territory, North Kivu indicate that a powerful and influential armed group has joined the AFC/M23 rebellion cementing the expansion of the ongoing fighting ...

Map by Joel Masselink. The most accessible alternative? The highland sector of Kahuzi-Biega National Park, located on the opposite side of Lake Kivu ... indeed its backer Rwanda, are operating ...

Legacy trees or forests with potential for the carbon market are the 'largest and oldest native trees' that have survived in Rwanda's landscapes despite agricultural expansion, human settlements ...

It is located on the northern tip of Lake Tanganyika ... But unlike Rwanda, which is headed by a Tutsi president, the majority Hutus are in power in Burundi. Burundi's government fears that if the M23 ...