Goma is threatened by conflict and a volcano: we’ve created a handbook to help hotspots like these
The DRC illustrates how millions of people in fragile, violent and conflict-affected parts of the world are at risk of ...
Giraffes grooming, Big Island eruption and more of the week’s best photos
See 12 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.
‘On the streets I once walked dead bodies lay prostrate and forgotten’
On the streets I once walked and drove down daily, near the shopping centre where I bought my groceries, dead bodies lay ...
Congo says rebel uprising in its east has killed over 7,000 people this year
More than 7,000 people have died this year as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have captured unprecedented amounts of territory in mineral-rich eastern Congo.
As Rwanda-backed rebels seized Goma, the families of Congolese soldiers became a target
Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo’s major city of Goma have targeted relatives of fleeing Congolese soldiers.
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The latest on the fighting in the Congolese city of Goma
Emmet Livingstone reports from Goma. (SOUNDBITE OF GUNFIRE ... where active volcanoes tower above jungles and rolling green hills. Eastern Congo is also rich in minerals, but this natural bounty ...
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What is happening in eastern Congo, where rebels captured a key city?
Associated Press writers Justin Kabumba in Goma, Congo; Christina Malkia in Kinshasa ... It is the Hawaii volcano's latest ...
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The smouldering volcanoes of Eastern Congo
Eastern Congo, a peripheral part of the inter-lacustrine ... Surrounded by majestic lakes and a range of dormant and active volcanoes with its rich and alluvial soil feeding off the volcanic ...
In Latest Advance, Rebels in Congo Say They Have Entered a Key City
M23 rebels backed by Rwanda took the city of Goma in a bloody battle. This weekend, the group entered the gold-trading center of Bukavu in eastern Congo after government soldiers fled.