The meeting comes amid escalating violence in the DRC, where rebel groups under the Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC/M23) have taken control of key cities, including Goma in North Kivu and Nyabibwe ...

The Afghan-German national did not disclose the value, but said the deal was signed after the expiration of the previous contract with the Serena hotel chain. The line of hotels, owned by the Aga ...

More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma ... source in the DRC. “We did not independently ...

Nearly 3,000 people were killed in Goma last week, according to early estimates provided by the UN peacekeeping operation in eastern DRC. The fighting between M23, a rebel group that the UN says ...

A laboratory holding Ebola and other dangerous pathogens in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma—which has been seized ... of decades-long turmoil in eastern DRC. The International Committee ...

In Goma, power and running water are back in most residential areas ... If the Congolese side violates the ceasefire, "that makes the DRC side look bad again," Wolters told DW. Rwanda's President Paul ...

Vivian van de Perre, the deputy head of the United Nations mission in the DRC, told reporters in a video call from Goma that U.N. teams are “actively helping” the M23 to collect the dead from the city ...