The UNHCR spokesperson also highlighted the fact that “heavy artillery shelling and looting” have destroyed 70,000 emergency ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, have since been advancing around one of Africa's great lakes, Lake Kivu, towards the second-biggest city ...

Storyline: As senior officials from east and south African nations gathered in Tanzania on Friday for a joint summit to ...

A recent meeting of leaders from eastern and southern Africa called for a ceasefire in eastern Congo but did not urge the M23 rebels to stop their advance.

The rebels on Monday said they did not intend to seize Bukavu or other areas, though they earlier expressed ambition to march on the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s capital, Kinshasa ...

The capture of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's largest city ... hold talks to prevent an escalation of the conflict. In Congo's capital Kinshasa, lawmakers in the National Assembly held ...

In January, rebel fighters claimed the eastern city of Goma in the Democratic Republic ... where one lives in Congo, the humanitarian situation can be very bad. But in the capital, Kinshasa ...

02/08/2025 February 8, 2025 The Rwanda-backed M23 militia is closing in on the town of Bukavu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and pushing into the South Kivu province. More than 2 ...

Nearly 3,000 people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to ... a main road toward the South Kivu capital of Bukavu.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is no stranger to civil conflicts. But the latest advances made by M23, a rebel coalition, capturing the mineral-rich city of Goma, is a humiliating setback ...

Rwanda-backed rebels who seized a major city in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC ... their three-day capture of Goma - the regional capital of eastern DRC - after fierce battles with ...

Over 2,000 bodies require burial in Goma after Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took over the Democratic Republic of Congo ... Goma, east Congo's largest city and capital of North Kivu province, is ...