The Rwandan-backed insurgents' seizure of Goma this week and ongoing offensive southwards are the biggest escalation since 2012 of a decades-old conflict the U.N. says risks spiralling into ...

Just before the M23 seizure of Goma, it was providing emergency aid to more than 800,000 people just around the city and 1.5 million in Congo's four eastern provinces.

Rwanda-Backed Rebels Bed Down in Congo's Goma and Push South for Further Gains (Reuters) -The United Nations expressed deep concern at reports of M23 rebels and Rwandan troops advancing south ...

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On Monday evening, M23 claimed total control of the airport in Goma, a city that is home to two million people and the hub for international military and humanitarian interventions in the conflict ...

(Reuters) -The United Nations expressed deep concern at reports of M23 rebels and Rwandan troops advancing south towards the Congolese city of Bukavu on Thursday, as the militants sought also to ...

UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) city of Goma is calmer but still tense, with some violence hampering humanitarian operations ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels captured large parts of Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, including its airport, the United Nations said, as Rwanda's president on Wednesday joined ...

(Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's M23 rebel group has gained control of the airport in the eastern city of Goma, diplomatic and security sources told Reuters. Corneille Nangaa, leader of ...

"The humanitarian situation in and around Goma remains extremely worrying," Jens Laerke, spokesman for the United Nations' humanitarian agency OCHA, told reporters in Geneva. He said UN colleagues ...

It remained unclear how much of Goma is controlled by the rebels, who marched into eastern Congo’s strategic city early Monday to both fear and cheers among residents. But more than 2 million of ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Hospitals are overwhelmed in east Congo's city of Goma, treating hundreds of patients with gunshot, mortar and shrapnel wounds while many dead bodies lay in the streets ...