M23 now controls nearly all of North Kivu and the province’s vast mineral wealth—including tin (cassiterite), tantalum ...

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United Nations agencies called for an end to the violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as fighting ...

UNICEF is on the ground in the Democratic Republic of the Congo delivering urgently needed humanitarian assistance.

Conflict threatens to spread as M23 rebel group advances into South Kivu province Fears are growing that the conflict ...

Rebels had captured the city in January in major escalation of 10-year-old conflict ...

GOMA, CONGO — Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo's largest city said Thursday they want to take their fight to ...

There were 773 bodies in hospital morgues in and around the eastern Congolese city of Goma as of Jan. 30 following this ...

The rebels entered Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, on January 27 night and had seized control of the city's airport by January 28 evening, after facing pockets of resistance in strategic are ...

At least 773 people were killed in eastern Congo's largest city of Goma and its vicinity this week amid fighting with ...

Congo’s Goma city was already home to thousands of people who had fled years of war as rebel groups jostled for control of ...

The rebels’ advance into other areas was slowed by a weakened military that recovered some villages from them.