GOMA, Congo (AP) — The Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo’s major city of Goma have targeted relatives of fleeing Congolese soldiers, the families say, with the troops’ wives ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Fighting between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the M23 armed group around Goma has displaced and upended life for ...

Goma’s takeover by the M23 rebels represents more than a typical political crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo because it holds deep personal significance for me. The fall of Goma reminds ...

Canada has withdrawn its military officers from a United Nations peacekeeping mission in eastern Congo, citing the “increasingly perilous security conditions” in the rebel-held city of Goma.

(Nairobi) – The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has unlawfully ordered tens of thousands of displaced people to leave the camps around Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights ...

Louise Sabina, 39, poses for a photo Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025 in a Goma, eastern Congo school where she and her 10 children found shelter after her soldier husband was sent to Rumangabo for mixing ...

On Jan. 31, 2025 the rebel group known as the March 23 Movement (M23) captured the city of Goma in the eastern DRC. At a news conference, Corneille Nangaa, leader of the Congo River Alliance that ...

The M23’s capture of Goma marked a significant turning point in the decades-long conflict in eastern DRC, with repercussions across the continent. At least seven African national armies are currently ...

"There are places that smell of corposes, the dirt of abandonned military uniforms and you can see the ruins of abandonned houses and looted shops," Ahadi Kyambikwa, a tailor from Goma, Democratic ...