Kenya has announced a virtual crisis summit, but Congolese state media says President Felix Tshisekedi will not attend.

Residents walk by charred vehicles in Goma, Democratic republic of the Congo, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025 ...

Gunfire rang out across parts of Goma, the largest city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), hours after Rwanda-backed M23 rebels said they had seized it despite the United ...

DRC officials report that at least 165 women were raped by male inmates during the mass prison break from Goma’s Muzenze prison on 27 January. The International Organization for Migration (IOM ...

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

And Corneille Nangaa, who leads a rebel alliance of which M23 is the largest member, has vowed to march on the DRC’s capital in Kinshasa. Located 1,000 miles west of Goma, the capture of ...

Vivian van de Perre, the deputy head of the United Nations mission in the DRC, told reporters in a video call from Goma that U.N. teams are “actively helping” the M23 to collect the dead from ...

As the M23 rebellion pushes further into South Kivu following the fall of Goma, the group has declared a ceasefire set to take effect on Thursday, February 3, 2025. The M23 stated that the ...

More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma ... source in the DRC. “We did not independently ...

Is it too late, asked Le Pays (Ouagadougou): have we "reached the point of no return" for another catastrophic conflict in ...

Tshisekedi leveled criticism at the international community for standing idly by as the rebels seized control of the DRC town of Goma and continued their push into the country. Advertisement "Your ...