At a recent summit in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, leaders of eight African states released a statement calling for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The ...
Electricity, water and internet access are cut off, and medical and food warehouses are being looted. It remained unclear how much of Goma is controlled by the rebels, who marched into eastern Congo’s ...
Hundreds of thousands of displaced people sheltering in camps in and around the city of Goma, in Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province, have been severely impacted by extreme violence ...
On Thursday, the rebels seized Sake, a town only 27 kilometers (16 miles) from Goma, sending panic surging as concerns mounted that the city could soon fall. Earlier in the week, they captured ...
Bishop of Willy Ngumbi Ngengele of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Willy says he is dismayed at the scale of violence in his diocese as M23 rebels advanced into the ...