Will offers of resource wealth to the US and other powers help bring militia violence to heel in the Democratic Republic of ...

More than a month after rebels captured Goma, the capital of DRC’s North Kivu province, humanitarian workers dispute the UN’s ...

A conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is set to erupt into a wider ...

By Fergus O’Leary SimpsonJoel MasselinkLara Collart The resurgence of the M23 (March 23 movement) rebel group has once again ...

Our correspondent is in the city of Goma, three weeks after it fell to M23 rebels. Show more In the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, M23 rebel fighters are continuing their advance amid a ...

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

University of Oxford The city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was taken over by the M23 rebel group in January 2025. This was a tragic escalation of a decades-long conflict that ...

Fighting in Goma between the rebels and DRC’s military left more than 3,000 people dead, according to the government. Rebel spokesman Tesongo told CNN that the claimed capture of Goma and Bukavu ...

Two days earlier, the deputy head of the United Nations mission in the DRC, Vivian van de Perre, had reported that some "2,000 bodies [had] been recovered from the streets of Goma [in the] last ...