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 ...

Islamic State-linked rebels have killed at least nine villagers in an attack in Congo’s conflict-battered east.

Frank, a World Vision staff member, lost two family members—Laurianne and Jean-Pierre—when the M23 siege on Goma turned their ...

Since January 26, the North Kivu region and Goma have been in a state of fear. Fabien Mat [pseudonym], a journalist based in Goma who Global Voices contacted, said: Selon les informations dont nous ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Last week, it claimed control over Goma, capital of the North Kivu province. Congo, however, has vowed to reclaim the city of around 3 million people. Kinshasa has accused Rwanda of sending troops ...

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 ...