DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The Rwanda-backed rebels who captured key areas of Congo’s mineral-rich east said Monday they were withdrawing from peace talks this week with the Congolese government ...

A boat has capsized in southwestern Congo and killed 25 people ... province on Sunday night when the vessel capsized on the Kwa River, said Alexis Mputu, the provincial spokesman.

The rebels have seized east Congo's two biggest cities since January in an escalation of a long-running conflict rooted in the spillover into Congo of Rwanda's 1994 genocide and the struggle for ...