North Kivu was among the war-torn regions Pope Francis entrusted to the prayers of the faithful during his Sunday Angelus ...

The U.N. health agency says that fighting last week between Congolese government forces and Rwanda-backed rebels in the major ...

When M23 rebels swept into the Congolese city of Goma this week, world powers urged them to immediately withdraw. Instead, ...

A glimpse of life after the siege in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, as some semblance of a tenuous peace returns, as does the fear of reprisals.

The United Nations said Wednesday that there is relative calm in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, following several days ...

More than 100 trucks heading to Goma city in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), are stuck at the ...

Rwandan-backed armed group M23 has seized Goma, the biggest city in the country's east, and is advancing south as volunteers and the struggling Congolese army attempt to beat them back.

A rebel alliance claimed the capture of the biggest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich eastern region ...

U.N. aid agencies are warning of a major humanitarian crisis as fighting continues in the Congolese city of Goma. The city of over 2 million people is the main trading hub of the mineral-rich region.

Until June, the United Nations had peacekeepers deployed in Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province. The U.N. made an agreement with the government to gradually begin drawing down its mission, ...

The M23 advance on North Kivu capital Goma, first reported last week, saw the United Nations (UN) mission in Democratic ...