(SOUNDBITE OF WATER LAPPING) KATE BARTLETT, BYLINE: The Serena Hotel, Goma's five-star establishment, sits on picturesque Lake Kivu and is a favorite haunt of foreign correspondents, U.N. workers ...

The Serena Hotel said Friday it was closing its operations in the Afghan capital on Feb. 1, with the Hotel State Owned Corporation taking over. The corporation is overseen by the finance ministry.

The M23 rebel group that is backed by Rwanda has emerged as a more potent force after being crushed during their first rebellion in 2012 ...

Corneille Nangaa, political head of AFC/M23 rebel group, on January 30, announced that they intend to continue marching in ‘liberation’ towards Kinshasa, the capital of DR Congo. He was addressing the ...

The road trip, an expedition to the ‘small Swiss Alps’, says James Nzaywala, Manager Goma Serena Hotel, is courtesy of the hotel, Jambojet and Malaika Lodge. The partnership, he says focuses ...

The management of Kabul's famed Serena hotel has been taken by Afghanistan's Taliban government on Saturday, read a hotel statement, a luxury property which saw several attacks during the war.

Rwandan-backed rebels declare they are now in control of the key eastern Congolese city of Goma, as their troops continue to claim more territory in the mineral rich region.

The Taliban are taking over the operations of Afghanistan’s only luxury hotel in Kabul, more than a decade after they launched a deadly attack there that killed nine people. The Serena Hotel ...

The Taliban are taking over the operations of Afghanistan’s only luxury hotel in Kabul, more than a decade after they launched a deadly attack there that killed nine people. The Serena Hotel ...