The international airport in Goma was evacuated and commercial flights temporarily grounded as fighting between Rwanda-backed rebels and government forces raged around eastern Congo's key city ...

In early August 2024, under Angola's mediation, a ceasefire agreement was signed between Rwanda and DR Congo. However, on October 20, the rebels resumed their offensive in the northwest of the ...

Congolese rebels and allied Rwandan forces entered the outskirts of Goma on Sunday and the airport in the key eastern city was no longer in use, the top U.N. official in the country said, as ...

With international pressure mounting for an end to the battle for Goma, Kenya announced on Sunday that DR Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwanda's President Paul Kagame had agreed to attend ...

The DR Congo army and M23 on Friday clashed outside Goma as the UK, US and France urged citizens to leave the main city in DR Congo's volatile east, warning the situation could deteriorate rapidly.

U.N. chief Antonio Guterres called Sunday on Rwandan forces to withdraw from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and halt support for fighters advancing on the key Congolese city of Goma.

This swift advance comes hours after DR Congo's foreign minister accused neighbouring Rwanda of declaring war by sending its troops over the border to support the M23. Rwanda does not deny backing ...

The rebel group seized Goma in 2012 and controlled it for over a week. Since 2021, DR Congo’s government and allied forces, including Burundian troops and U.N. troops, have been keeping M23 away ...

26 January 2025 — Spiralling violence and killings in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo triggered an emergency Security Council meeting Sunday morning amid peacekeeper and civilian ...

Rwanda's representative did not deny backing M23. The calls come after 13 soldiers serving with peacekeeping forces in the DR Congo were killed in clashes with M23 rebels, UN and army officials ...

Major General Peter Cirimwami, governor of the province of Nord-Kivu, photographed at a news conference in Goma, DR of Congo (Moses Sawasawa/AP) The governor of the Democratic Republic of Congo ...