Mechanical diggers have spent days excavating the dark, volcanic earth of the city of Goma, preparing long trenches in which ...

African leaders asked defense chiefs for a road map to end the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

"How does he know what's going on? He was there for two weeks and he's an expert in USAID? Give me a break," said former USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios.

After the M23 militia advanced on Goma in eastern DRC, hospitals report they have now reached capacity. While the militia has ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Zawadi Sifa has been fleeing conflict since 2012, most recently ...

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

Amid the ongoing violence in Congo, hundreds of women in Goma's Munzenze Prison were raped and burnt alive after the city was ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have seized control of a mining town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province, eight sources said on Wednesday, in an apparent violation of a unilateral ...

The M23 rebels took control of a town 100 kilometres (60 miles) from the provincial capital of Bukavu despite a ceasefire.

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels last week captured regional capital Goma in an anarchic and mineral-rich part of Democratic Republic of Congo.