The group, backed by thousands of troops from neighbouring Rwanda, seized Goma, the main city in eastern DRC, last week, with the United Nations estimating 900 people were killed, while hundreds ...

As the diplomatic row between Pretoria and Kigali continues to spiral, Rwandan President Paul Kagame's spokesperson Yolande Makolo has fired a salvo at President Cyril Ramaphosa, insisting that ...

"Escalating hostilities in eastern Congo have created a dire situation. We meet here to seek a lasting solution to end the challenges facing the DRC people," Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa ...

“If nothing is done, the worst may be yet to come, for the people of the eastern DRC, but also beyond the country’s borders,” he told a Special Session of the Human Rights Council in Genev ...

Rwandan government spokesperson Yolande Makolo told CNN that, as of Monday, 16 people have been killed in Rwanda “during the shelling from the fighting in Goma.” Last week, DRC leader Felix ...

Fighting between Rwandan-backed M23 rebels and Congolese armed forces has exacerbated an already "dire situation" for millions of people, Dr Boureima Hama Sambo, WHO representative for the DRC ...

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Nearly 3,000 people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the United Nations, after it was captured by rebels following days of fierce ...

"The population in eastern DRC is suffering terribly, while many of the products we consume or use, such as mobile phones, are created using minerals from the east of the country. We are all ...

The announcement on Monday came shortly after the UN health agency said at least 900 people were killed in last week’s fighting in the DRC's eastern city of Goma between the rebels and Congolese ...