Read our coverage of the conflict in eastern DRC Estimates of the death toll vary widely. On 3 February, Patrick Muyaya, the Congolese government spokesman, announced that more than 2,000 had died ...

Our correspondent is in the city of Goma, three weeks after it fell to M23 rebels. Show more In the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, M23 rebel fighters are continuing their advance amid a ...

The United Nations warned of an ongoing humanitarian disaster as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took the city of Goma in the Democratic ... order water when dining out, and don't pay for the kids ...

Two days earlier, the deputy head of the United Nations mission in the DRC, Vivian van de Perre, had reported that some "2,000 bodies [had] been recovered from the streets of Goma [in the] last ...