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

A Swiss aid group said on Thursday that three of its local employees were killed during an attack while on a humanitarian ...

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

Critical minerals factor into the fight.

Gunfire rang out across Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday as M23 rebels and Rwandan forces were spotted ...

Residents walk by charred vehicles in Goma, Democratic republic of the Congo, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025 ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels marched into the centre of Goma, the largest city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

As an uneasy calm returned to the Congolese city of Goma, following a unilateral ceasefire declared by the rebels, people ...

Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo - January 31, 2025 Peacekeeping troops from the United Nations Stabilization Mission ...

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.

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 ...

Map: The Economist Goma is more than 1,500km east of Kinshasa, Congo’s capital, but just 100km west of Kigali, the Rwandan one. It is the hub of what Mr Kagame sees as Rwanda’s sphere of ...