Goma is the capital of Congo’s mineral-rich North Kivu region, a longtime tinderbox for ethnic violence and home to one of Africa’s most protracted conflicts. The city’s fall to the rebel ...

Fighting has escalated sharply in recent weeks in eastern Congo, where rebels have seized key towns and are closing in on the city of Goma, the government’s last stronghold in the North Kivu ...

The United Nations is temporarily relocating nonessential staff from Goma such as administrative staff and others that can continue performing their duties from elsewhere in response to the ...

Goma is home to around two million people and is the largest city in North Kivu. M23’s incursion on Monday was the second time the group had moved to capture the provincial capital after it ...

Home to around 2 million people, Goma is the provincial capital of North Kivu and the largest city in Congo’s east. Humanitarian and medical facilities have come under fire amid the fighting.

GOMA, Congo (AP) — The governor of eastern Congo’s North Kivu province has died from injuries sustained during fighting on the front line, a military spokesman said Friday, as M23 rebels ...

M23 rebels say they have taken control of the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic ... activities in support of M23 operations in North Kivu," the statement added. M23 rebels claim they have ...

M23-led rebels say they control Goma Some army and pro-government militia ... adding there was no viable access by road or by boat on Lake Kivu. Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the U.N. humanitarian ...

The group rose to prominence in 2012 when its fighters seized Goma, the capital of North Kivu province and eastern Congo’s largest city, on the border with Rwanda. M23 is one of about 100 armed ...

According to a United Nations report, over a third of the population of North Kivu province, where Goma is located, are currently displaced and the capture of Goma will likely exacerbate the ...