GOMA, Congo (AP) — Panic spread in eastern Congo’s main city on Thursday, with M23 rebels steadily inching closer to Goma and seizing a nearby town as they battle the Congolese army.

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 ...

M23 rebels fighting Congolese government forces claim taking over Goma city which borders Rwanda Army in Kigali says more than 120 Congolese soldiers surrendered into Rwanda and disarmed Kigali ...

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 ...

They poured out of the countryside and into the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s east. M23 rebels, backed by Congo’s neighbor Rwanda, were attacking. Goma was under siege.

(Nairobi) – Civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are at increasing risk as the abusive M23 armed group, supported by the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF), approaches Goma, the capital of ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Hospitals are overwhelmed in east Congo's city of Goma, treating hundreds of patients with gunshot, mortar and shrapnel wounds while many dead bodies lay in the streets ...

The M23, the latest in a long line of Tutsi-led rebel movements backed by Rwanda, captured Goma in 2012 but withdrew days later after an agreement brokered by neighboring nations. Congo has more ...

Congolese rebels and allied Rwandan forces entered the outskirts of Goma on Sunday (January 26, 2025) and the airport in the key eastern city was no longer in use, the top U.N. official in the ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — 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 ...

it's not over yet," senior U.N. official in Congo, Bruno Lemarquis, said on Monday after Rwandan-backed M23 rebels claimed to have control of Goma. "Active zones of combat have spread to all ...

The M23 rebel group on January 27 claimed to have seized Goma, a key city in the North Kivu province of DRC, in a coup d’etat. The city’s capture followed a 48-hour deadline imposed by the ...