The M23 rebel group, backed by Rwandan forces, has entered Goma, a major city in eastern DR Congo. Goma, with over a million residents, is a vital trading hub near mineral-rich areas. The rebels ...

"We are asking all Goma residents to go back to normal activities," Corneille Nangaa, leader of the Congo River Alliance rebel coalition that includes M23, told reporters. The situation in the ...

Goma is the capital of Congo’s mineral-rich North Kivu region, a longtime tinderbox for ethnic violence and home to one of Africa’s most protracted conflicts. The city’s fall to the rebel ...

Since Goma was taken by Rwanda-backed M23 fighters earlier this week, some 100,000 internally displaced people have left the jam-packed hillside where they had set up several years ago.

The Congo government said Monday that Rwandan government troops are in Goma. There was no immediate response from officials in Kigali. The Congolese government “continues to work to avoid ...

Gunfire rang out across Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday as M23 rebels and Rwandan forces were spotted throughout the city. Hospitals reported at least 17 deaths and ...

GOMA: Rwanda-backed rebels claimed they captured eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma, early Monday, as the United Nations described a “mass panic” among its 2 million people and Congo’s ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo, (Reuters) – Rwandan-backed rebels marched into eastern Congo’s largest city Goma yesterday, and the U.N. said they were supported by at least some ...

Rwanda-backed rebels claimed they captured eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma, early Monday, as the United Nations described a “mass panic” among its 2 million people and Congo’s ...

Bodies are lining the streets of Goma, and hospitals are overwhelmed after an escalation in the long-simmering conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Rwandan-backed M23 group ...

The United Nations says Rwanda-backed rebels captured large parts of eastern Congo’s largest city of Goma including its airport GOMA, Congo -- Rwanda-backed rebels captured large parts of Goma ...