It has been a humiliating week for nearly 300 Romanian mercenaries recruited to fight on the side of the army in the ...

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

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

Fighting last week between Congolese government forces and Rwanda-backed rebels in the major eastern city of Goma left at ...

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

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

STORY: Rwandan-backed rebels appear keen to show they can not only seize the biggest city in eastern Democratic Republic of ...

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

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, ...

“Goma is a strategic and highly symbolic city with an international airport ... to fight,” Kagame told French network France 24 in June last year, adding: “We are not afraid of anything.” ...

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 earlier ...

The United Nations said Wednesday that there is relative calm in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, following several days of intense fighting between the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels and the Congolese ...