On the streets I once walked and drove down daily, near the shopping centre where I bought my groceries, dead bodies lay ...

More than 100 female inmates of an African prison were raped and burned alive during a jailbreak, the United Nations said.

Large parts of Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, are now under the control of the M23 and their Rwanda ...

Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo - February 06, 2025 The rebels of the March 23 Movement (M23) have called on the ...

Nearly three thousand people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to ...

There are growing international calls for Rwanda and the DRC to restart peace talks, as the Rwandan backed rebels take over a major city in the mineral rich region of eastern Congo.

A glimpse of life after the siege in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, as some semblance of a tenuous peace returns, as does the fear of reprisals.

See 12 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

Eastern Congo, a peripheral part of the inter-lacustrine ... Surrounded by majestic lakes and a range of dormant and active volcanoes with its rich and alluvial soil feeding off the volcanic ...

Protesters in Kinshasa, the capital of Democratic Republic of Congo, have been burning portraits ... supervision and ...

Eastern Congo, which is rich in critical ... LIVINGSTONE: The severity of the fighting belies the beauty of Goma, which is nestled between a towering volcano and the glittering Lake Kivu, one ...