Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, have since been advancing around one of Africa's great lakes, Lake Kivu, towards the second-biggest city ...

U.N. aid agencies are warning of a major humanitarian crisis as fighting continues in the Congolese city of Goma. The city of over 2 million people is the main trading hub of the mineral-rich region.

Congolese troops have fought back against Rwanda-backed rebels who the U.N. says are moving fast into the South Kivu province ...

A senior U.N. official in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Wednesday that nearly 3,000 people have been killed in a fighting between ... in a video call from Goma that U.N. teams are ...

Goma, which fell to M23 fighters and the Rwandan military last week, has become a symbol of the conflict that has ripped ...

Goma woke on January 26 to the sound of bombs, as Rwandan forces crossed the border, taking the Congolese army and Romanian paramilitaries by surprise. Fighting broke out in the heart of ...

Congolese forces meanwhile retreated towards central Goma. The UN peacekeepers, aware of the army collapse, stopped fighting and switched focus to protecting civilians. As night fell, the streets ...