Rwandan-backed M23 rebels say they are now in control of the key eastern Congolese city of Goma. Their fighters continue to ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council today agreed by consensus to launch an urgent fact-finding mission and commission of ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo ... of multistate wars that played out in Congo after the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which as many as 1 million people, mainly of the Tutsi ethnic group ...

Early in the week, by many accounts, the so-called M23 rebels had effectively taken Goma, the biggest and most important city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lofty names can be ...

Once crowded with white makeshift huts, the huge Kanyaruchinya camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Goma, in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, looked eerily empty Sunday.

Since Goma was taken by Rwanda-backed M23 fighters earlier this week, some 100,000 internally displaced people have left the jam-packed hillside where they had set up several years ago.

When I first drove into the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ... The M23 captured Goma, a city of nearly two million people, last week after a lightning advance in DR Congo's ...

More than 700 people have been killed and 2,800 injured in just five days since fighting escalated in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between January 26-30, UN Secretary-General ...

In the city of Goma on the border with Rwanda, people are still suffering in ... Skip next section Similar stories from Democratic Republic of Congo ...

Amid the escalation of violence, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) has scaled up humanitarian response in Goma, a city in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

LAC VERT, Democratic Republic of Congo, Feb 2 (Reuters ... "Those who took our land are still there, still killing people and terrorising," she said, cooking a pot of beans over an open fire.

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.