GOMA, Zaire — On a lakeshore outside this once pleasant resort town lies a ruined palace, testimony to the opulent lifestyle of President Mobutu Sese Seko and the violence that is pushing his… ...

Zaire's ex-president who called himself "the all powerful warrior who goes from conquest to conquest, leaving fire in his wake" left a lot more than fire behind. ... I was reminded of Mobutu's bizarre ...

Goma, a key hub in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, fell to the M23 rebels and Rwandan forces earlier this week after days of fierce street combat with Congolese forces in the city of over 2 ...

A Rwanda-backed armed group has seized large parts of eastern Congo, threatening a regional war and a deepening humanitarian crisis. By Elian Peltier Reporting from Goma, Democratic Republic of ...

Goma natives Justin Kabumba and Moses Sawasawa brought their deeply personal expertise to bear when Rwandan-backed M23 rebels began their push toward the eastern Congo city of Goma. Sensing a larger ...

There are growing international calls for Rwanda and the DRC to restart peace talks, as the Rwandan backed rebels take over a major city in the mineral rich region of eastern Congo.

On Monday, Goma, the largest city in the mineral-rich northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC, formerly Zaire), fell to the Rwandan-backed M23 militia. Situated near the Rwandan border ...

The fall of Goma underlines the failure of Mr Tshisekedi’s pledge, upon taking office in 2019, to bring peace and order to eastern Congo. The latest attempt at peace talks intended to stem M23 ...

Goma is more than 1,500km east of Kinshasa, Congo’s capital, but just 100km west of Kigali, the Rwandan one. ... the dictator of what was then Zaire. That is unlikely.

Fighting across the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and "is still very much ongoing ... it's not over yet," senior U.N. official in Congo, Bruno Lemarquis, said on Monday ...

The Rwandan refugee camp in Benaco, Tanzania, in 1994. Right, children inside the Kimumba camp in Goma, Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo. Image.

More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a ...