Rebels in eastern Congo's largest city, Goma, began a ceasefire on Tuesday and people rushed to bury some 2,000 victims of last week's battles for the city as they feared the spread of disease.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

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 ...

Goma is a humanitarian relief hub for all of eastern DRC, and was the epicentre of a vast crisis before it fell. It hosted ...

M23 rebels fighting Congolese government forces claim taking over Goma city which borders Rwanda Army in Kigali says more than 120 Congolese soldiers surrendered into Rwanda and disarmed Kigali ...

NAIROBI — An armed rebel group backed by Rwanda took full control of a key provincial capital in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday, residents said, after days of bloody ...

On Jan. 29, after an all-out urban warfare battle that killed and injured thousands of people, mostly civilians, Goma, a ...

“The situation in eastern DRC now demands our collective focus.” The apparent takeover of Goma, a city of about 2 million, has prompted fears of further violence and mass displacemen ...

This comes after the reportedly Rwandan-backed rebels said over the weekend they had taken control of Goma, the biggest city in the region. Rose Tchwenko, the DRC’s country director for Mercy ...

NAIROBI — Gunfire and explosions ripped through the eastern city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday as the Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group clashed with government forces.

Ethnic Tutsi-led M23 rebels enter city of Goma Fighting continues amid conflicting claims about M23 advance Congo and UN accuse Rwanda of sending troops into Goma Conflict stems from Rwanda ...

Congolese rebels and allied Rwandan forces entered the outskirts of Goma on Sunday and the airport in the key eastern city was no longer in use, the top U.N. official in the country said ...