After losing her leg in a 2014 bombing in eastern Congo, Wivine Kavira Mukata transformed her trauma into purpose by becoming an ortho-prosthetist, helping fellow amputees regain mobility and dignity.

SAKE, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -A town just west of the major east Congo city of Goma appeared under army control on Thursday hours after hundreds of residents fled an outbreak of ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo — “I fled the fighting in Bweremana between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo [FARDC] and the M23 armed group. I saw how a whole family was [wiped ...

The 11,385-foot-high Nyiragongo volcano, in a remote area of the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga national park, is pouring lava towards Goma, a major city distant 12 miles (20 kilometers) from ...

The Petite Barriere border post, one of the crossings between Rwanda and the DR Congo, has returned to normalcy just one week after AFC/M23 rebels captured Goma town. Cross-border trade has also ...

The governor of North Kivu Province, Erasto Musanga Bahati, has announced the extension of opening hours of the ‘Grande Barrière’ Border post between Rubavu and Goma towns, effective September 19. The ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - A small plane carrying passengers and cargo crashed on Monday in the eastern Congolese town of Goma, a Reuters witness said. It was not immediately clear how many people were on ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - At least nine people were killed on Monday when a twin-propeller plane crashed as it tried to land in bad weather in the eastern Congolese town of Goma, ...

According to the UN's refugee agency, more than 400,000 people have been forced from their homes in the provinces of North and South Kivu in the last four weeks. The truck drivers who were caught up ...

Miguel Masaisai, a 23-year-old athlete from Goma in Democratic Republic of Congo, is cycling 6,000 kilometres from his hometown to Cape Town in South Africa, in a bid to promote peace and unity in his ...