The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group and the allied Alliance Fleuve Congo have threatened, detained, and attacked journalists, critics, and civil society ...

After rumors of forced recruitment in Goma by the M23 rebel movement, parents rushed into schools to collect their children, ...

Mount Nyiragongo volcano, an iconic feature of the park, has been almost stripped of trees. ‘Integrated Deforestation Alerts’ (shown by red dots) from Global Forest Watch in Virunga National ...

Increased violence in the three easternmost provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is raising deep concern ...

It’s also just 12 miles (19km) from one of the most dangerous active volcanoes in the world: Mount Nyiragongo. Mount Nyiragongo can have lava flows of more than 60 miles (96km) per hour.

Based on early assessments, MSF teams began providing equipment, medicines, and staff to more health centres in the ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today issued a new position on returns to the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), advising that Congolese nationals fleeing the conflict, as well as those ...

Last year, I worked in Goma for three months as a doctor for a humanitarian organisation, my first mission with the organisation and a lifelong dream. Before the violence broke out last week, we ...

In response to this development, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has adapted by deploying mobile ...

Following fighting and evacuation orders from the Mouvement du 23 Mars/Alliance Fleuve Congo (M23/AFC) group, hundreds of thousands of people have left the displacement camps around Goma, Democratic ...