Congolese officials and negotiators for the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have arrived in Doha for talks to hammer out a ceasefire and end months of fighting that have raised fears of a wider regional ...

About 50 hippos have died of anthrax poisoning in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park, the oldest ...

In a briefing to the U.N. Security Council on what she called “the alarming situation” in Congo, Bintou Keita pointed to the ...

The conflict in the east of the DRC escalated in late January 2025 when the rebel group took Goma, the capital of North Kivu, and Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu, both bordering Rwanda ...

Police in eastern Congo killed two people on Tuesday when they opened fire on mourners at the funeral of a slain singer known for denouncing both his own government and the Rwandan-backed rebels ...

The leader of the rebels who captured two key cities in eastern Congo says international sanctions and the planned minerals deal that the country has offered the U.S. will not stop the fighting in the ...

"They (rebels) have seen their adventure come to a halt by the FARDC," Lt Col Guillaume Ndjike Kaiko, the then Congolese army spokesman for North Kivu ... towards Goma to the east.

Keita told the council that M23 controls large parts of North Kivu and ... to march as far as Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, about 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) to the east, and moving into Tshopo ...

BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo, - P olice in eastern Congo killed ... In Beni, which is nearly 200 km north of Goma and under Congolese government control, violence broke out after Idengo ...

Nearly 3,000 people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the United ...

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