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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Goma has been afflicted by the ebb and flow ... in a region of such astonishing natural beauty, where active volcanoes tower above jungles and rolling green hills. Eastern Congo is also rich ...