GOMA, Congo (AP) — Panic spread in Goma on Thursday, with M23 rebels steadily inching closer to the city in eastern Congo as they battle the Congolese army. Bombs were heard going off in the distant ...

The Congolese army acknowledged on 21 January the advance of M23 rebels in South Kivu province. Backed by Rwanda’s army, the ...

Press Release - Civilians under continued assault as warring factions M23 and Congolese Army ramp up use of explosive weapons ...

The former US administration says Rwandan President Paul Kagame's government rebuffed a proposed peace incentive for a deal between DR Congo and Rwanda. It involved expanding the Lobito Corridor to ...

Many are still haunted by the aborted legacy of DR Congo’s first prime minister, who was murdered on January 17, 1961.

The M23 and FARDC, as well as their allies such as the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Mission in the DRC, the Rwanda Defence Force and the myriad militia allied to the Congolese army, ...

More than 100 civilians were killed in the eastern DRC as a result of the indiscriminate use of ground-launched rockets in the first half of 2024.

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What he didn’t know then was that the man, who ran a bar-come-brothel, was ‘patient zero’ in an outbreak of a new, more dangerous strain of mpox called clade 1b, which would trigger a global health ...

A reporter made a long journey, much of it spent fighting through mud on a motorbike, to reach the epicenter of a viral outbreak in Africa.

Tutsi-led M23 rebel group claims to defend Tutsi interests against ethnic Hutu militias whose leaders are linked to genocide ...

Swelling violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has displaced some 237,000 people since the start of the year, the United Nations said Friday .