Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

M23 rebels escort Romanian mercenaries to the border crossing into Rwanda in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025.

Our tour of Goma airport earlier this week took much longer than I had anticipated. There was simply too much to see, too much dangerous stuff on the tarmac and other sections to navigate, and too ...

As an uneasy calm returned to the Congolese city of Goma, following a unilateral ceasefire declared by the rebels, people began burying the dead, and agencies rushed aid to thousands of displaced ...

African leaders asked defense chiefs for a road map to end the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The United Nations confirmed at least 900 people died in the fighting and another million were displaced, but the full scale of the human toll is still emerging. Many of those who died are women and ...

Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.

Nearly 300 foreign mercenaries hired by the Democratic Republic of Congo government to counter a swift offensive by ...

Editorial - The Summit on Saturday bringing together SADC and the East African Community (EAC) was immensely practical in ...

The largest city in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo ... the map of the region—and, in doing so, risk another catastrophic African war. The origins of events in Goma go back decades.

There is a good chance that inside your mobile phone is a miniscule amount of a metal that started its journey buried in the earth of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where a war ... trading and ...

In Bukavu -- home to two million people, and the second biggest city in eastern DR Congo after Goma -- an AFP reporter saw long lines of volunteers queueing to join a Congolese militia that has been ...