More than a month after rebels captured Goma, the capital of DRC’s North Kivu province, humanitarian workers dispute the UN’s ...

Canada has withdrawn its military officers from a United Nations peacekeeping mission in eastern Congo, citing the “increasingly perilous security conditions” in the rebel-held city of Goma.

In February 2025, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution agreeing to establish a fact-finding mission on the ...

The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF ... people a day - around 364,000 of them children - in the regional capital Goma after breaks in the water supply due to the uptick in fighting.

A professor of global health was in Kivu when the fighting began to rage. She recounts what she and her colleagues ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels launching an offensive in east Congo abducted at least 130 sick and wounded men from two hospitals ...

The United Nations says the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have abducted at least 130 sick and wounded men in two hospitals in a ...

UN Human Rights Office expressed grave concerns on Monday concerning attacks on hospitals and abductions of patients by the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 during the ongoing armed conflicts in the ...

But on the road, the situation is good," he told DW. After capturing Goma in late January, the M23 fighters, who UN experts say are backed by thousands of Rwandan soldiers, swiftly took control of ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk ... The M23 rebels on Sunday captured Bukavu, the city of 1.3 million people, after seizing Goma, 101 kilometers (63 miles) to the north ...

The M23 rebels on Sunday captured Bukavu, the city of 1.3 million people, after seizing Goma, 101 kilometers (63 miles) to the north last month. At least 3,000 were reported killed and thousands ...