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Joseph Kabila is visiting the eastern city of Goma, which has been seized by rebels, after he was stripped of immunity.
It is the end of a political exile that started more than a year ago. Former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo ...
Former Congolese President Joseph Kabila appeared for the first time in public in rebel-held territory in the country's ...
Displaced people left in the care of NGOs The "new regime," and in particular its political ... the DRC by the rebels at the very start of their offensive, is known. Christophe Châtelot (Goma ...
Various UN peacekeeping troops were killed this weekend in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC ... 17 km from Goma, in addition to guarding the UN Logistics Base housing civilians about to ...
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have tightened their grip on Goma ... according to local DRC media outlets. In a post on X, Bertrand Bisimwa, the head of M23’s political wing, said the group’s ...
Goma faces a cash crisis as Kinshasa shuts the local central bank; M23 rebels respond by setting up their own financial institutions. With his black shirt soaked by the rain lashing Goma in eastern ...
NAIROBI — Gunfire and explosions ripped through the eastern city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday as the Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group clashed with government forces.
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 ...
Goma market (Democratic Republic of Congo), on March 4, 2025. REUTERS Under normal circumstances, Goma's Birere market is a hive of activity, with hundreds of stalls packed with produce from North ...
This comes after the reportedly Rwandan-backed rebels said over the weekend they had taken control of Goma, the biggest city in the region. Rose Tchwenko, the DRC’s country director for Mercy ...