Rwanda-backed rebels claimed on Monday they captured eastern Congo’s strategic city of Goma, the hub of a region containing ...

Congolese security forces on Tuesday tried to slow the advance of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels who say they have captured Goma ...

On January 27, 2025, as M23 announced it had taken control of Goma, my phone rang. It was my friend Esther. This was our first call of the year after exchanging New Year greetings. Esther is a young ...

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

M23 rebels, backed by Congo’s neighbor Rwanda, were attacking. Goma was under siege. But bombs were falling to the north and west. People had nowhere to go but the city. They were caught in a trap.

Former president Thabo Mbeki says the Congolese government needs to improve its capacity to govern the eastern part of the Congo. He said Congolese President Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo should ...

Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo - Clashes between the rebel group March 23 Movement (M23) and the Army of the ...

The United Nations reports that over 5.5 million people are displaced in Congo, many of them in North Kivu. People like Lomoo Biondo Manuel, an internally displaced person, want the violence to stop.

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.

DR Congo has experienced decades of militia violence ... 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 ...

"The people of Congo are tired. How many times should we die?" he added, referring to the cycle of conflicts. Congo accuses Rwanda of aiding the M23 rebels and sending soldiers to join them ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels claimed they captured eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma, early Monday, as the United Nations described a “mass panic” among its 2 million people ...