GOMA, Congo – Mechanical diggers have spent days excavating the dark, volcanic earth of the city of Goma, preparing long trenches in which to bury the victims of one of the deadliest battles in ...

La semana pasada, esta bomba de relojería explotó otra vez en la ciudad congoleña de Goma, fronteriza con Ruanda, cuando fue tomada por la guerrilla M-23, apoyada por ese último país.

Located 1,000 miles west of Goma, the capture of Kinshasa is unlikely. But the conflict still looks set to spread deeper into the DRC. The speed of the M23 advance has taken many by surprise.

That in turn enabled the pumping station at Kyeshero to be switched back on. The station provides water for several neighbourhoods in Goma and some health facilities, such as the CBCA Ndosho Hospital.

The call comes after M23 rebels have already seized Goma, the provincial capital. Reports suggest that they are closing in on the city of Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province. This has ...

Residents listen to M23 rebel soldiers in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo on Friday, Jan. 31, 2025. GOMA, Congo—At least 773 people were killed in eastern Congo’s largest city of Goma ...

At least 773 people were killed in eastern Congo's largest city of Goma and its vicinity this week amid fighting with Rwanda-backed rebels who captured the city in a major escalation of a ...

The eastern DRC city of Goma was seized by M23 rebels and their Rwandan allies on 26 January. Residents have emerged to count the dead and make sense of the fast-moving offensive. Some small traces of ...

During the chaos, ALGA-J president Winston Maragh’s left hand was bruised after a microphone was forcefully taken from him. Maragh, a member of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and former ...

The bloody conflict in the eastern DRC took a dramatic turn this week when Kigali-backed fighters from the M23 claimed to take control of Goma in North Kivu province before advancing southwards in ...

The African health body raised concerns Thursday about the displacement of more than 1 million people in the eastern city of Goma of the Democratic Republic of Congo. “There is an urgent need to ...

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 ...