Former Congolese president Joseph Kabila, who is accused of supporting rebels, has met with top religious leaders in the ...

Congolese former president Joseph Kabila has arrived in the rebel-held eastern city of Goma for talks with locals, three ...

It was a dramatic culmination of a 3-year conflict which now threatens to spark a regional war in Central Africa. But inside Goma, the city's new masters are moving quickly to establish control.

Human rights group Amnesty International accused the M23 rebels in eastern Congo of killing, torturing and forcibly ...

Earlier on Monday, M23 announced the capture of Goma, which the DRC government described was a “declaration of war” by Rwanda. The UN said the capture has caused “mass panic” among Goma ...

Amuri Upendo, a Goma resident who took part in the looting, said he did so out of survival. “We’re in a time of war, and anything goes worse. I had nothing to eat, I gave shelter to five ...

DRC's government has called the takeover a "declaration of war" by neighboring Rwanda. Goma, a regional hub of over 2 million people, is on the DRC's border with Rwanda. The city has been ...

Gunfire rang out early on Monday across parts of Goma, the largest city in eastern ... conflict risks reigniting a broader regional war. “There is confusion in the city; here near the airport ...

and Congo's government condemned the rebel advance as a "declaration of war." The rebels issued their statement just as the deadline passed, signaling the capture of Goma minutes before heavy ...

Heavy fighting turned Goma into a war zone. Shells pounded residential neighborhoods, and battles engulfed the airport, radio stations, and border posts. According to the DRC government ...

Thousands have been displaced, exacerbating an existing humanitarian crisis and prompting fears of an all-out regional war. Explosions from Goma's outskirts have been reverberating across the city ...

“There are no more places for the dead,” says Marie Kavira-Nvungi, a nurse at a hospital in Goma, the largest city ... has failed to get a grip on its war-torn east and co-operates with ...