The Latest Breaking News from M23

The United Nations will need to mobilise a record $2.25 billion this year to address the mass displacement of people in east Democratic Republic of Congo following a major offensive by M23 rebels last year, the U.N. coordinator for the country, Bruno Lemarquis, said on Wednesday.

A main focus of the two-day meeting will be on trying to achieve ceasefires in the Sahel and the eastern DRC.

The United Nations says at least 32 civilians were killed by rebel groups in eastern Congo’s Ituri province

Hundreds of civilians fled a town near the major eastern Congo city of Goma on Thursday after heavy gunfire that raised fears of M23 rebels advancing into the area.

Convoy was firing ‘warning shots’ which also wounded 28 people in North Kivu province, UN mission MONUSCO says.

In tonight's edition: Human rights investigators accuse M23 rebels operating in eastern DR Congo of terrorising communities with summary executions. Also, the UN slams Mali's expulsion of the MINUSMA mission's human rights chief in the country. Finally, even though female genital mutilation has been banned in Ivory Coast since 1998,…

Congo's government on Monday blamed M23 rebels for an attack on a helicopter that killed a United Nations peacekeeper, as hundreds in the eastern city of Goma demonstrated over spiralling insecurity in the region.

East African regional leaders on Saturday renewed their call for an immediate ceasefire by all sides in the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that pits the country's military against a rebel group it has accused Rwanda of supporting.

The 86-year-old Francis says a ‘forgotten genocide’ is under way in DRC as he begins his trip to two African nations.