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 ...

Since Goma fell, I’ve lived in fear. I don’t dare leave my house.” These are the words of Justin Shamutwa Masumbuko, general ...

Tens of thousands of IDPs are leaving and routine is tentatively returning, as residents hope for peace despite crisis.

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

The past three years have been turbulent for the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a region that has experienced ...

A senior U.N. official in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Wednesday that nearly 3,000 people have been killed in a ...

M23 fighters have been pressing to capture strategic eastern city for months and intensified offensives in recent days.

(CNN) — A rampaging rebel group has claimed the capture of another mining town in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC ... s largest city Goma. Clashes between the rebel ...

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

The risk of further eruptions from volcano Nyiragongo led DR ... a densely populated area of the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Twenty-two people, most of them women and ...

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“You have the volcano on one side ... Meanwhile, France has sided with the DRC. “As Goma prepares to fall, France expresses its solidarity with the Democratic Republic of Congo and its ...