Former members of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) and police officers who allegedly surrendered ...
Aerial view of Goma, Nord Kivu, DRC in November 2014. Image courtesy of MONUSCO Photos via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-NC 2.0). “We’ve lost everything. In our country, I don’t know anyone who ...
A professor of global health was in Kivu when the fighting began to rage. She recounts what she and her colleagues ...
More than a month after rebels captured Goma, the capital of DRC’s North Kivu province, humanitarian workers dispute the UN’s ...
When the Banyene family were sent back to their home in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, all that had survived the fighting was a crumbling wall and sagging metal roof. Shell casings from ...
“On Sunday, we were practically cut off from the world.” Aerial view of Goma, Nord Kivu, DRC in November 2014. Image courtesy of MONUSCO Photos via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-NC 2.0). The next ...
Frank, a World Vision staff member, lost two family members—Laurianne and Jean-Pierre—when the M23 siege on Goma turned their ...
By the peaceful shore of Lake Kivu in Gisenyi, Rwanda, this month.Credit... Supported by By Elian Peltier Photographs by Guerchom Ndebo Elian Peltier and Guerchom Ndebo reported from both Goma ...
GOMA, Congo — The Rwanda-backed rebels who ... particularly in Bukavu, the South Kivu provincial capital. “We call on Rwanda and M23 to ensure that human rights and international humanitarian ...
Canada has withdrawn its military officers from a United Nations peacekeeping mission in eastern Congo, citing the “increasingly perilous security conditions” in the rebel-held city of Goma.