Despite an unconditional ceasefire declared by an alliance of rebel groups that includes the M23, Goma and the larger Eastern part of DRC remains in a precarious condition. On Feb. 16, 2025, 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 ...

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 ...

Communities in eastern DRC are enduring horrific levels of violence. Shells have struck hospitals in Goma, DRC, killing and injuring civilians, including newborns and pregnant women. Armed groups ...

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

Dozens of mpox patients being treated in hospital isolation units in Goma have fled for their lives ... 1,348 laboratory-confirmed mpox cases in DRC this year until February 2, with no deaths.

University of Oxford 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 ...

After the M23 militia advanced on Goma in eastern DRC, hospitals report they have now reached capacity. While the militia has unilaterally announced a ceasefire, observers remain skeptical.

In Goma, power and running water are back in most residential areas ... If the Congolese side violates the ceasefire, "that makes the DRC side look bad again," Wolters told DW. Rwanda's President Paul ...