Since the Rwandan genocide, the ongoing conflict in east Congo has killed 6 million people, in attacks, famines and unchecked ...

Since January, the region has seen a new escalation of violence as the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group launched an offensive in ...

The foreign ministers for Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo signed a U.S.-brokered peace deal to end the ...

Residents listen to Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator at the ...

From 17 to 19 June, nearly 90 participants from Beni, Butembo, and Lubero, including local authorities, traditional leaders, humanitarian actors, and civil society representatives, met in Beni to ...

Zawadi Sifa who has been fleeing fighting from camp to camp, shares food with her seven children in Goma, Democratic Republic ...

Congolese internally displaced civilians carry their belongings as they flee from renewed tensions from Kanyaruchinya to Goma in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

In January, M23, a group allegedly supported by Rwanda, seized control of Goma, a strategic hub in North Kivu province. The group then expanded its reach, capturing Bukavu in February.

The head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo met with leaders of the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 on Friday in Goma, in her first visit to the eastern city of Goma since its capture by the ...