During the Goma jailbreak, several women were assaulted by male inmates, while the majority perished when the prisoners set ...

It has been a humiliating week for nearly 300 Romanian mercenaries recruited to fight on the side of the army in the ...

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An insurgency led by M23 rebels in eastern Congo has escalated and reached the city of Goma, worsening a humanitarian crisis in a region that suffered two devastating wars between 1996 and 2003.

The apparent takeover of Goma, a city of about 2 million, has prompted fears of further violence and mass displacement ...

More than 100 female prisoners were raped and then burnt alive during a jailbreak in the Congolese city of Goma, according to ...

On January 27, M23 rebels, a group synonymous with the March 23 Movement claimed that they had taken over Goma, on the ...

Vladimir Putin grabbed much of Donbas, an eastern region of Ukraine, and pretended he had not. As a figleaf he used ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo - Rwandan-backed rebels marched into east Congo's largest city Goma on Monday and troops ...

DR Congo's government has not replied to a BBC request for comment on whether background checks were carried out, or about the pay disparity between the private contractors and Congolese troops.

Rwandan-backed rebels gained ground in eastern Congo on Wednesday despite the unilateral ceasefire they declared earlier this ...

M23, which refers to the March 23rd, 2009, accord that ended a previous Tutsi-led revolt in eastern Congo, is the latest ...