GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have entered east Congo’s second-largest city of Bukavu, residents and a community leader say.

If the rebels capture the capital of South Kivu province, it would represent an unprecedented expansion of territory under ...

The U.N. children’s fund on Thursday accused armed men, likely on both sides of the conflict in eastern Congo, of raping ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s largest church organizations met Wednesday with Rwanda-backed rebels in the country’s east in the ...

Creating sustainable peace in Congo requires giving justice to the victims of war crimes and preventing the illicit trade in ...

Mariam Nasibu stands by her 10-year-old daughter Deborah, who was wounded in the fighting between M23 rebels and Congolese armed forces, in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Thursday ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The deadly march by Rwanda-backed rebels across eastern Congo could widen into a regional conflict drawing in even more countries, analysts warn, and the two nations most ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Zawadi Sifa, right, 35, mother of seven, who has been fleeing ...

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Nearly three thousand people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to ...

Police confirm a person was shot inside the Maine Mall in South Wednesday afternoon, and officers are currently searching the ...