The city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was taken over by the M23 rebel group in January 2025. This was a tragic escalation of a decades-long conflict that's led to mass ...

M23 rebels backed by Rwanda took the city of Goma in a bloody battle. This weekend, the group entered the gold-trading center ...

More than 100 female inmates of an African prison were raped and burned alive during a jailbreak, the United Nations said.

On the streets I once walked and drove down daily, near the shopping centre where I bought my groceries, dead bodies lay ...

Rebels in eastern Congo's largest city, Goma, began a ceasefire on Tuesday and people rushed to bury some 2,000 victims of last week's battles for the city as they feared the spread of disease.

The risk of further eruptions from volcano Nyiragongo led DR Congo authorities to order the evacuation of parts of the city of Goma Thursday, causing an immediate exodus of tens of thousands of ...

The U.N. health agency says that fighting last week between Congolese government forces and Rwanda-backed rebels in the major ...

There are growing international calls for Rwanda and the DRC to restart peace talks, as the Rwandan backed rebels take over a major city in the mineral rich region of eastern Congo.

February 06, 2025 The rebels of the March 23 Movement (M23) have called on the population of Goma, located in the east of the ...

Eastern Congo, a peripheral part of the inter-lacustrine ... Surrounded by majestic lakes and a range of dormant and active volcanoes with its rich and alluvial soil feeding off the volcanic ...

Emmet Livingstone reports from Goma. (SOUNDBITE OF GUNFIRE ... where active volcanoes tower above jungles and rolling green hills. Eastern Congo is also rich in minerals, but this natural bounty ...