With tensions rising and the fear of violence casting a heavy shadow over the city, Goma stands as a ghost town, its streets stripped of the energy that once defined it. The hum of daily life has been ...

Goma, the main city in the Democratic Republic of Congo's volatile east, is set to fall to the M23 armed group and Rwandan ...

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Kenya has announced a virtual crisis summit, but Congolese state media says President Felix Tshisekedi will not attend.

East African leaders are planning a presidential summit to try to resolve the crisis. Kenyan President Ruto announced that ...

M23 rebels launched a mortar bomb in the direction of Goma Airport which landed in the SANDF base, killing three members.

The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) is part of a United Nations (UN)-backed peacekeeping mission in the DRC city ...

Supported by between 3,000 and 4,000 Rwandan soldiers, according to the United Nations, Congolese rebels managed to enter the ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa remains in direct contact with the presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and of Rwanda ...

Kagame hit back, accusing South Africa of being part of a "belligerent force" involved in "offensive combat operations" ...

Congo has severed diplomatic ties with Rwanda as fighting between Rwanda-backed rebels and government forces rages around the ...

Regional tensions spiral as peacekeepers killed in fighting following Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group offensive ...