Matters have come to a boil in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Tens of thousands of well-trained, disciplined and heavily armed M23 soldiers have come out of some bush and given the hapless ...

Now is the time to end the crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN Secretary-General said on Thursday in a briefing to journalists in New York.

The Rwanda-backed rebels who captured a major city in eastern Congo have sought to reassure its residents about their safety.