Rwanda-backed rebels battling Congo’s army have pushed into a strategic, mineral-rich town in the east, ignoring calls for a ...

The leader of Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in eastern Congo said on Thursday that a call by Kinshasa and Kigali for an immediate ...

The town’s capture would leave the rebels, who took eastern Congo’s two largest cities earlier this year, in control of a road linking four eastern Congo provinces and within 400 km (250 miles ...

The town of about 15,000 people sits about 125 km (80 miles) northwest of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's largest city Goma, which the rebels seized in January, and puts them within 400 km ...

and rebels said in a statement late Thursday that they had “liberated” the town. Taking Walikale gives the rebels control of a road linking four provinces in eastern Congo — North Kivu ...

Walikale is the farthest west the rebels have reached in a advance that had already overrun eastern Congo's two largest cities since January. The town of 15,000 people fell after fighting on ...