March 23 Movement

Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda denies war crimes in court

2013-03-26 09:55:00

Standing before the International Criminal Court on Tuesday for the first time, Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda denied he was guilty of a long list of wartime crimes. Ntaganda faces charges of forcing children to fight as soldiers and indirectly...

Rights groups hail surrender of Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda

2013-03-19 10:59:00

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- In his seven years on the run from international justice, Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda became a symbol of the International Criminal Court's impotence. Now the court, which lacks a police force to arrest those it has...

Central African Republic peace talks lead to coalition government

2013-01-11 11:57:00

JOHANNESBURG – Opposition forces in the Central African Republic who took control of a large swath of the country in recent weeks have succeeded in forcing President Francois Bozize’s government to share power, officials said Friday. In a...

U.N. Security Council imposes arms embargo on Congo rebels

2013-01-01 11:45:00

In a bid to quell violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Nations Security Council imposed an arms embargo late Monday on two armed groups accused of rape and mass killings. The decision came just before Rwanda, which has been...

Rebels in eastern Congo pull back from key city of Goma

2012-12-01 12:38:00

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo — Two weeks after seizing Goma, the M23 rebels withdrew Saturday with a warning that they still could retake the key eastern Congo city. M23, backed by neighboring Rwanda, caused a geopolitical crisis with its...

Ending the cycle of abuse in Congo

2012-12-23 00:00:00

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — On Nov. 19, armed men from a rebel group called the M23 were looking for a prominent civil society leader in a village outside Goma, a provincial capital in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. He'd been...

A chance for calm in Congo

2012-11-30 00:00:00

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been repeatedly ravaged by war, rebellion and attacks on civilians in the last two decades. Though the country is rarely without some skirmish going on somewhere — a result of a complicated history of rivalries...

Congo rebel leader acquitted on war crimes charges

2012-12-18 13:00:00

A rebel leader accused of leading a brutal attack on a Congolese village nearly a decade ago was acquitted Tuesday by the International Criminal Court, which said prosecutors failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Mathieu Ngudjolo was...

M23 rebels withdraw from the city of Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on Dec. 1, 2012.

2013-01-01 11:28:00

M23 rebels stand guard outside a football stadium as the M23 rebel spokesman, Lt. Col. Vianney Kazarama, gives a speech to a crowd of thousands in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Nov. 21, 2012.

2012-12-14 00:00:00

M23 rebels withdraw from the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday.

2012-12-01 00:00:00