UNICEF recorded nearly 600 cases of rape in the week following the fall of Goma, in the east of the country, at the end of ...

Classes started again on Thursday in some of Goma's schools, the day after panic broke out following a rumor alleging the ...

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and partners in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are providing lifesaving ...

Officials have ruled out Ebola or Marburg virus, but say those infected are presenting symptoms of a ‘hemorrhagic fever’ ...

“We expect this number to go up,” she ... perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, an allegation the DRC rejects. M23 holds Goma Van de Perre said Goma is “firmly under control at the ...

We call for all parties to the conflict to cease hostilities ... Shells have struck hospitals in Goma, DRC, killing and injuring civilians, including newborns and pregnant women. Armed groups continue ...

The armed group, backed by several thousand Rwandan soldiers, has taken the capital of South Kivu province. It continues to advance, despite calls for a ceasefire from the African Union and threats of ...

“On Sunday, we were practically cut off from the world.” Aerial view of Goma, Nord Kivu, DRC in November 2014. Image courtesy ...

The city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has fallen into the hands of M23 rebels. Civilians are the ...

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 ... DRC’s army and its allied forces. “We ...

GOMA, Congo — Rwanda-backed rebels captured a key eastern Congo city a month ago Friday. Residents in Goma, which was once a ...