DAKAR, Senegal — Rwanda-backed rebels appeared to be heading toward a third major city in eastern Congo, residents said ...

The M23 rebels on Sunday captured Bukavu, the city of 1.3 million people, after seizing Goma, 101 kilometers (63 miles) to the north last month. At least 3,000 were reported killed and thousands ...

Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo’s major city of Goma have targeted relatives of fleeing Congolese soldiers.

Here, there's fear and uncertainty." Unlike their conquest of Goma, the capital of North Kivu, on January 27, this time the Congolese insurgents, backed by the Rwandan army, seized Bukavu – a ...

The slight 13-year-old sits on a bed in a tent in the grounds of an overcrowded hospital in Goma city in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Heshima's left leg is a bandaged stump ...

In an appeal January 27, Bishop Willy Ngumbi Ngengele of Goma said he was “sickened to learn of the bombings, including the neonatal ward of the Charité Maternelle General Hospital, resulting ...

Boat traffic between the cities of Goma and Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo resumed on Tuesday after several days of suspension due to fighting between the army and M23 rebels.

THE streets of Goma, once teeming with the bustle of traders haggling, schoolchildren laughing as they hurried to class, and workers commuting through the dusty roads, have now fallen eerily silent.