LIVE: M23 Captures South Kivu’s Capital Bukavu as DR Congo Soldiers Flee | Firstpost Africa Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have ...

M23 rebels captured Bukavu, the capital of the eastern DRC’s South Kivu province, on 16 February with little resistance from ...

Movement, backed by Rwanda, now controls Goma and Bukavu—and the entire Kivu Lake region—by force. The rebel group is now ...

Interview - Marcus Bachmann, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) head of programmes for South Kivu province, explains the ...

Residents of eastern Congo's second-largest city on Monday surveyed the aftermath of widespread looting that accompanied the ...

Panic swept through Bukavu on Saturday as residents and soldiers fled by the thousands, scrambling to escape the looming ...

Pacifique Murhula, a cab driver in Bukavu, the rebel-controlled capital of DR Congo’s South Kivu Province, did not see any good reason why he “would waste time going to vote” during the country’s ...

The capture of Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province, would represent an unprecedented expansion of territory under the ...

As the Security Council prepared to gather on Wednesday to debate the international community's response to the growing ...

M23 rebels pledge to restore security in Bukavu as an escalation in fighting fans fears of an all-out regional war.

M23 rebels have captured Bukavu in the DRC, following Goma's fall, with locals surprisingly welcoming them. The DRC faces ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 fighters claim to have taken control of Kavumu airport serving Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu ...