1 day ago · Uganda has deployed more than 1,000 extra soldiers into east Congo in the last week near an area where the Kinshasa government is fighting M23 rebels, four diplomatic and U.N. sources said ...

19 hours ago · Uganda denies U.N. reports that it has helped train some M23 fighters and given the group a rear base to move men and arms. Having seized much of North Kivu province, M23 rebels have been ...

Mutineers formed a rebel group called the March 23 Movement (M23), also known as the Congolese Revolutionary Army. It was composed of former members of the rebel CNDP, and allegedly sponsored by the governments of the neighbouring states of Rwanda and Uganda.

4 days ago · KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — After Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took control of the biggest city in eastern Congo this week, the man who emerged from the shadows to assert his leadership was not the group’s long-time military leader.. Sultani Makenga, an ethnic Tutsi rebel leader sanctioned by both the U.S. and the U.N., was nowhere to be seen in Goma’s Serena Hotel as the bearded Corneille Nangaa ...

2 days ago · More than 700 people died as fighters from the M23 group captured the eastern city of Goma. ... many have gone to Rwanda, [the Congolese city of] Bukavu, Kenya and Uganda."

Jan 28, 2025 · M23 is one of more than 100 militias roaming the mineral-rich areas of eastern Congo. ... Rwanda and Uganda, and allowed Hutu militias to regroup in eastern Congo, prompting Rwanda and Uganda to ...

Jul 9, 2024 · Uganda is backing M23 rebels fighting across its border in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, UN experts say, warning that a rapidly escalating crisis “carried the risk of triggering a wider...

Jul 9, 2024 · Uganda and Rwanda invaded in 1996 and 1998 for what they said was defence against local militia groups. Uganda is still conducting joint operations with the DRC troops against a rebel Ugandan...

Jul 8, 2024 · The Ugandan army has provided support to the M23 rebel group operating in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a United Nations report seen by Reuters on Monday said, as escalating clashes...

Apr 3, 2023 · GOMA, Congo (AP) — East African regional forces have regained control of Bunagana, a strategic town in eastern Congo that had been held by M23 rebels for more than nine months, a spokesman for the regional force said Monday.