After a lightning offensive, M23 rebels now control Goma, a large city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Goma, the capital of North Kivu, is both a strategic economic hub and a trade conduit to Rwanda. Rwanda frames its ...

Strewn with rubble from mortar and artillery fire, the eastern DR Congo city of Goma awoke on Thursday to a new abnormal -- ...

The M23 rebels are now in control of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Western media love to call it the mineral rich city. This is the second time ...

Shifting calculations by sponsors of the M23 rebel group risk triggering another war in the Great Lakes Region, underscoring importance of African mediators and global partners acting quickly to stem ...

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The March 23 Movement (M23) armed group on Thursday announced its willingness to dialogue with the government of the Democratic ...

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The Rwandan-backed M23 group is advancing further south in DR Congo, local and humanitarian sources told AFP Thursday, after ...

Economic rivalry and ethnic tensions lay at the center of the long-simmering conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where the strategically located city of Goma has recently fallen to r ...

A group of Romanian citizens stranded in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo due to military conflict has been successfully evacuated from the country, but not before some of ...