The M23 have lost their last stronghold after Democratic Republic of Congo troops captured the area, which is the rebels’ main base.
Rebel fighters in the Democratic Republic of Congo have seized control of three towns in the country’s east, consolidating gains over state forces.
The DRC army has suffered an embarrassing defeat after being routed from the town of Bunagana.
DRC President Joseph Kabila met his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame on Thursday for the first official bilateral talks between the states in 13 years.
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/ 14 November 2008
About 60 000 refugees are to be moved from a camp on the frontline of fighting between DRC rebels and government forces, the United Nations says.
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/ 13 November 2008
UN peacekeepers blamed rebels in eastern DRC on Wednesday for forcing thousands of displaced people to flee a refugee camp.
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/ 1 November 2008
Fears mounted over the fate of tens of thousands of people fleeing conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday.
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/ 31 October 2008
Rebel troops were poised outside the Congolese city of Goma on Friday as the EU mulled sending troops to the strife-torn region to prevent a disaster.
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/ 29 October 2008
A new bout of heavy fighting erupted between government and rebel forces on Wednesday in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Rescue workers have recovered 21 bodies from the crash site in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where a passenger plane smashed into a crowded market on take-off, the chairperson of the airline said late on Tuesday — but they have so far been unable to establish if any of the plane’s passengers were among the victims.