Rebels in eastern Congo's largest city, Goma, began a ceasefire on Tuesday and people rushed to bury some 2,000 victims of last week's battles for the city as they feared the spread of disease.

Goma, the largest city in North Kivu, has come under the control M23, which has set up a parallel administration with a governor, two vice governors, a mayor and a number of burgomasters.

Later on Thursday, a rebel leader, Corneille Nangaa, gave Goma’s citizens a taste of their new reality under the powerful militia — which some experts say counts 6,000 troops in eastern Congo ...

More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a ...

Residents of the besieged city of Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, say they are gripped by fear as gunshots continue to ring out around their homes, days after rebel forces ...

On Jan. 27, the M23 said it had captured Goma, the capital of North Kivu province and a city of more than a million people, thousands of whom have been displaced from other conflict areas.

Rwandan-backed rebels declare they are now in control of the key eastern Congolese city of Goma, as their troops continue to claim more territory in the mineral rich region.

In Goma, anger was directed at MONUSCO, as the 25-year-old U.N. peacekeeping force is known. “They have betrayed the Congolese people,” said Patrick Amani, a motorcycle taxi driver.

SAKE, Democratic Republic of Congo, Feb 9 (Reuters) - 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 ...