GOMA, Congo — Islamic State-linked rebels attacked a village in conflict-battered eastern Congo killing at least nine ...
Islamic State-linked rebels have killed at least nine villagers in an attack in Congo’s conflict-battered east.
A professor of global health was in Kivu when the fighting began to rage. She recounts what she and her colleagues ...
Businesses are struggling to survive, financial transactions are almost impossible, and people are having trouble making ends ...
It has been nearly a month since M23 rebels seized control of Goma, the main city of the eastern province of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Since then, the rebel leaders ...
ACN’s local sources have expressed fear that over the next few days, M23 will take Butembo, North Kivu’s second-largest city, as it did Goma and Bukavu. “We are living through very ...
The battles resulted in many Congolese citizens in North and South Kivu dead, and the overthrow ... the same year it took over Goma. A United Nations report found that Rwanda is behind the ...
The rebels captured Goma, the capital of North Kivu, in late January and took Bukavu on 16 February. Now, they appear to be heading for Uvira, a strategic city on the shores of Lake Tanganyika. By 18 ...
In the same manner, the UN World Food Programme, WFP, announced on Thursday that it had partially resumed food assistance to parts of Goma, which fell to M23 rebels three weeks ago. In North Kivu ...
took control of the South Kivu provincial capital Bukavu on Sunday, just weeks after capturing Goma, the capital of North Kivu and main city in the Democratic Republic of Congo's mineral-rich east.
Goma, in North Kivu in eastern Congo, has fallen. The M23 rebels, backed by Rwandan forces, have claimed control of the town. Chaos reigns. The prison is on fire following a major escape.