Tens of thousands of IDPs are leaving and routine is tentatively returning, as residents hope for peace despite crisis.

On the streets I once walked and drove down daily, near the shopping centre where I bought my groceries, dead bodies lay ...

More than 100 female inmates of an African prison were raped and burned alive during a jailbreak, the United Nations said.

A glimpse of life after the siege in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, as some semblance of a tenuous peace returns, as does the fear of reprisals.

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There are growing international calls for Rwanda and the DRC to restart peace talks, as the Rwandan backed rebels take over a major city in the mineral rich region of eastern Congo.

For those living in Goma, which has been captured by Rwanda-backed rebels, there is little water, little food and much uncertainty. Rwanda-backed rebels took control of Goma, a city on Lake Kivu.

GOMA, Congo -- Fighting last week between Congolese government forces and Rwanda-backed rebels in the major eastern city of Goma left at least 900 people dead, the U.N. health agency said Monday ...

Goma natives Justin Kabumba and Moses Sawasawa brought their deeply personal expertise to bear when Rwandan-backed M23 rebels began their push toward the eastern Congo city of Goma. Sensing a larger ...

LIVINGSTONE: The severity of the fighting belies the beauty of Goma, which is nestled between a towering volcano and the glittering Lake Kivu, one of Africa's great lakes. These days, the lake ...