While the fighting occurred very close to Goma town, most displaced persons had taken refuge with host families, as others had gathered in the concessions of churches and schools in the town.

At least 34 people were killed in an attack on church premises in eastern Congo by Islamic State-backed rebels, according to ...

A town just west of the major east Congo city of Goma appeared under army control on Thursday hours after hundreds of residents fled an outbreak of gunfire for fear of an advance by M23 rebels ...

The death toll from an attack on a Catholic church in eastern Congo by Islamic State-backed rebels has risen to 34, according ...

The Petite Barriere border post, one of the crossings between Rwanda and the DR Congo, has returned to normalcy just one week after AFC/M23 rebels captured Goma town. Cross-border trade has also ...

Insecurity has been replaced by mistrust and paranoia, it’s hard to know who poses danger. But, residents say they are ...

Earlier this week, an eight-month-old rebel group seized the important, eastern city of Goma in a humiliating defeat to Congo's government. The M23 rebels are threatening to push onward to Bukavu ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Five Congolese soldiers were killed, a senior army officer said on Friday, in a clash with Rwandan forces this week that now risks inflaming tensions ...

At least nine people were killed on Monday when a twin-propeller plane crashed as it tried to land in bad weather in the eastern Congolese town of Goma, the government said.

KINSHASA (Reuters) – A small plane carrying passengers and cargo crashed on Monday in the eastern Congolese town of Goma, a Reuters witness said. It was not immediately clear how many people … ...