In an appeal January 27, Bishop Willy Ngumbi Ngengele of Goma said he was “sickened to learn of the bombings, including the neonatal ward of the Charité Maternelle General Hospital, resulting ...

Mechanical diggers have spent days excavating the dark, volcanic earth of the city of Goma, preparing long trenches in which to bury the victims of one of the deadliest battles in decades in the ...

Residents listen to M23 rebel soldiers in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo on Friday, Jan. 31, 2025. GOMA, Congo—At least 773 people were killed in eastern Congo’s largest city of Goma ...

Meanwhile, at least 10 prisoners were killed while escaping from Goma's Munzene central prison by setting fire, UN-backed Radio Okapi reported, adding that approximately 4,400 inmates escaped on ...

This issue is preventing our website from loading properly. Please review the following troubleshooting tips or contact us at [email protected]. By submitting your ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels claim major Congolese city, Congo calls ‘declaration of war’ Residents reported gunfire overnight in Goma, a city of 2 million people which the rebels claimed to have ...

GOMA - Residents of eastern Congo's largest city of Goma greeted the arrival of Rwanda-backed rebels with trepidation on Monday, some staying indoors and others coming out to cheer in what one ...

The Red Cross voiced alarm Tuesday over the risk that fighting in the besieged DR Congo city of Goma could cause samples of Ebola and other pathogens held in a laboratory to escape. The ...

Democratic Republic of Congo’s M23 rebel group has gained control of the airport in the eastern city of Goma, diplomatic and security sources told Reuters. Corneille Nangaa, leader of the AFC ...

In the Congolese capital Kinshasa, 1,600 kilometres west of Goma, protesters attacked a United Nations compound and embassies, including those of Rwanda, France and the United States, expressing ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Once again, the eastern Congolese city of Goma has fallen to the Rwanda-backed ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A senior humanitarian analyst on Monday that the ongoing conflict in eastern Congo’s Goma will have a ...