"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 ...

"We are asking all Goma residents to go back to normal activities," said Corneille Nangaa, head of Alliance Fleuve Congo, the political coalition backing the M23, just two days after heavy ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s health ministry on Saturday said there were 773 bodies in hospital morgues in and around the eastern Congolese city of Goma as of January 30 after 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 ...

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.

Once crowded with white makeshift huts, the huge Kanyaruchinya camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Goma, in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, looked eerily empty Sunday.

Supported by By Caleb Kabanda and Ruth Maclean Caleb Kabanda and Guerchom Ndebo reported from Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Ruth Maclean from Dakar, Senegal. Feb. 1, 2025 After a week of ...

The United Nations' peacekeeping chief said Friday that M23 rebels are advancing south toward the provincial capital of Bukavu after seizing control of Goma in the mineral-rich eastern Congo ...

At least 773 people were killed in eastern Congo's largest city of Goma and its vicinity this week amid fighting with Rwanda-backed rebels who captured the city in a major escalation of a ...

In a month, they have routed Congo’s underequipped army several times and caused more than half a million people to flee. On Monday, they captured Goma, a major Congolese city along the Rwandan ...

GOMA, Congo — At least 773 people were killed in eastern Congo’s largest city of Goma and its vicinity this week amid fighting with Rwanda-backed rebels who captured the city in a major ...