Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

A map of Africa highlights two countries: Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, along with two major Congolese cities, Kinshasa and Goma.

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Once again, the eastern Congolese city of Goma has fallen to the Rwanda-backed ...

GENEVA - Dead bodies were scattered in the streets of Goma and hospitals were overwhelmed with patients with gunshot and shrapnel wounds, a day after Rwanda-backed rebels marched into the biggest ...

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 ...

Food prices have also skyrocketed. Passy Mubalama, a human rights activist in Goma, said she recently paid 1,000 Congolese francs (about €0.35, $0.36) for a bundle of sombe, a local leafy vegetable.

M23-led rebels say they control Goma Some army and pro-government militia still holding out UN says peacekeepers are sheltering at bases In capital Kinshasa, protesters attack embassies GOMA ...

may be willing to use its strength to redraw the map of the region—and, in doing so, risk another catastrophic African war. The origins of events in Goma go back decades. Between 1996 and 2003 ...

Goma Hospitals Overwhelmed With Wounded, Dead Bodies in the Streets, UN Agencies Say By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -Dead bodies were scattered in the streets of Goma and hospitals were ...

Residents of the besieged city of Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, say they are gripped by fear as gunshots continue to ring out around their homes, days after rebel forces ...

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 and Congo’s ...

It comes after the M23 group claimed to have taken the city of Goma. "The government continues to work to prevent carnage and loss of life in light of Rwanda's clear intentions," government ...