Rwandan-backed M23 rebels say they are now in control of the key eastern Congolese city of Goma. Their fighters continue to ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo's foreign minister on Friday accused Rwanda of illegally occupying part of its territory, ...

Kenyan President William Ruto, the East African Community (EAC) chair, convened a virtual summit on 29 January to discuss the ...

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The scene is the result of the invasion of Goma on January 27th by M23, an armed group under the control of Rwanda, Congo’s neighbour, which abuts the city. Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s president, has ...

President of the Democratic Republic of Congo said on Thursday that his troopers are fighting an insurgence by the ...

In December, the DRC Ministry of Health announced the emergence of an unknown disease causing influenza-like symptoms. The disease outbreak was identified as a combination of malaria, respiratory ...

M23 rebel fighters in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have taken control of a strategic ... from the major city of Goma, on Saturday, provincial parliament member Alexis Bahunga told ...

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), various armed groups – including both Congolese army and rival armed rebel groups, among them the M23 – occupy mines and trading routes ...

The M23 is a well-armed group named after the date of a long-abandoned peace deal signed on March 23rd 2009. It is led by Congolese Tutsi officers. Sharing the same ethnicity as Mr Kagame, they ...

Mercy Corps’ national office is in Goma with sub-field offices in North Kivu, South Kivu, Ituri and the Kasai. Mercy Corps DRC’s key programming areas include a combination of longer-term development ...