The army of the Democratic Republic of Congo has accused Rwanda of dressing up prisoners in military uniforms in an effort to ...

GOMA, Congo — The Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo’s major city of Goma have targeted relatives of fleeing Congolese soldiers, the families say, with the troops’ wives chased ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Fighting between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the M23 armed group around Goma has displaced and upended life for ...

Louise Sabina, 39, poses for a photo Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025 in a Goma, eastern Congo school where she and her 10 children found shelter after her soldier husband was sent to Rumangabo for mixing ...

Many Hutus fled to Congo after the genocide and founded the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda militia ... Congo's forces were being supported in Goma by troops from South Africa and in ...

"This is the most worrying period of Goma's history," he said ... The decades long conflict has its roots - in part - in the Rwanda genocide of 1994, when around 800,000 people, mostly Tutis ...

When the rebels took over Goma, UN aid agencies warned of a major ... The origin of the current fighting can partly be traced back to the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. About 800,000 people ...

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.