Congo has been plagued by war for nearly three decades. Millions of people have been displaced, and rape has consistently ...

When hundreds escaped from Goma’s Munzenze central prison, the tenacious citizens of ...

I fled the fighting in Bweremana between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo [FARDC] and the M23 armed group ...

Before the capture of Goma, RSF recorded 52 press freedom violations between January 2024 and January 2025 in North Kivu province, the hardest-hit area by the conflict between the Armed Forces of the ...

Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo’s major city of Goma have targeted relatives of fleeing Congolese soldiers.

The DRC illustrates how millions of people in fragile, violent and conflict-affected parts of the world are at risk of ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels appeared to be heading toward a third major city in eastern Congo, frightened residents said Tuesday, as international pressure rose over the M23's ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels have captured two key cities in Congo’s mineral-rich east ... the M23 rebels first took Goma last month before marching to Bukavu this weekend ...

Unlike in 2012, when the M23 briefly seized Goma and withdrew after international pressure, analysts have said the rebels this time are eyeing political power. The fighting in Congo has ...