Panic is spreading in Goma in eastern Congo as M23 rebels encircle the city, battling Congo’s army. Many civilians have been wounded in the crossfire, stretching the main hospital.

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In the Democratic Republic of Congo, thousands more people have been displaced in recent days after M23 rebels seized the key eastern town of Minova, a main supply route for Goma, the capital of North ...

Many Congolese see the rebel advance as an invasion of their country by a foreign power in an attempt to seize land and Congo’s valuable rare minerals.

Laden with just the possessions they can carry, thousands of displaced people have reached the outskirts of the city of Goma ...

The United Nations chief voiced alarm Thursday over a new offensive launched by rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, who are threatening to take a key regional city.

The M23 rebel group’s had advanced quickly toward Goma, eastern Congo’s largest city, in recent weeks, displacing hundreds of thousands of people.

The former US administration says Rwandan President Paul Kagame's government rebuffed a proposed peace incentive for a deal between DR Congo and Rwanda. The Congolese government in Kinshasa and United ...

M23 and government. forces. Zones occupied. by M23. 200 km. kinshasa. Rwanda. Lake Kivu. Map data: OSM, NASA. Sources: military and humanitari ...

President Paul Kagame and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, discussed the security situation in the eastern part of DR Congo on Thursday, January 23, during the Rwandan leader's official ...