ISLAMABAD: Around 150 Pakistani nationals were stranded in violence-hit Goma following the recent escalation of conflict in ...

The World Health Organization reports that over 2,000 people have been wounded and 45 have died due to fighting in Congo's Goma region. The clashes have heightened the risk of spreading diseases such ...

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PRETORIA, January 30. /TASS/. Rebels from the Congo River Alliance, a coalition that includes the March 23 Movement (M23), are planning to advance on Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic ...

The scene is the result of the invasion of Goma on January 27th by M23, an armed group under the control of Rwanda, Congo’s neighbour, which abuts the city. Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s president, has ...

Economic rivalry and ethnic tensions lay at the center of the long-simmering conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where the strategically located city of Goma has recently fallen to r ...

Local sources said Kigali-backed fighters were advancing on a new front and had seized two districts in South Kivu province, ...

Just over three years after the resurgence of the M23 in eastern DR Congo, the rebel group’s war with a government coalition saw its biggest escalation on Sunday, January 26, when the rebels entered ...

The M23 rebels are now in control of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Western media love to call it the mineral rich city. This is the second time ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group vowed Thursday to "continue the march of liberation" to the DR Congo capital Kinshasa, as its fighters made further advances in the mineral-rich east of ...

MSF teams are treating an influx of wounded people arriving at Kyeshero hospital in Goma, DRC, following the armed clashes ...

After a lightning offensive, M23 rebels now control Goma, a large city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.