The M23 rebel group have captured the city of Goma in the eastern DRC in a major escalation of a drawn-out conflict.

Two days later, an assault on Goma was seen as inevitable. NGOs and the United Nations evacuated their non-essential staff from the city. On the volcanic plain of Sake, the road leading to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

volcanic earth of the city of Goma, preparing long trenches in which to bury the victims of one of the deadliest battles in decades in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Humanitarian ...

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 ...

the first to be conquered in the DRC by the rebels at the very start of their offensive, is known. Christophe Châtelot (Goma, special correspondent) Translation of an original article published ...

On a road west of Goma, the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Mary Ashuza and her ... in close proximity to an active volcano, on the shores of Lake Kivu, and ...

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 ...

Photo taken on January 30, 2025 shows the downtown area of Goma, North Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). (Credit: Xinhua) ...