M23 fighters have been pressing to capture strategic eastern city for months and intensified offensives in recent days.

"It was a terrible night," local sources told Fides from Goma, the capital of North Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which was conquered today, January 27, by the rebels of the ...

Kenyan President William Ruto, who chairs the East African Community (EAC), said he would convene a meeting of regional leaders over the escalating security crisis in eastern DR Congo, where rebels ...

The M23 militia, funded and directed by Rwanda, said it had seized the city of Goma, terrifying its people, many of whom ...

Russia?s UN envoy says his country will do ?everything in its power? to help restore peace in the troubled Central African ...

The Rwandan government has issued a statement addressing the deteriorating situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of ...

The rebels are advancing on two fronts near the provincial capital Goma in the nation’s turbulent east, where tens of ...

The governor of eastern Congo's North Kivu province has died from injuries suffered during fighting on the front line, a ...

The military governor of Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province has died from gunshot wounds suffered on the ...

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

Fighting has escalated sharply in recent weeks in eastern Congo, where rebels have seized key towns and are closing in on the ...

• Nicolas de Rivière, France’s envoy to the UN, has been appointed as ambassador to Russia. He is expected to leave for ...