The United Nations chief voiced alarm Thursday over a new offensive launched by rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, who are threatening to take a key regional city.
Panic spread in Goma on Thursday, with M23 rebels moving toward the city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as they battle the Congolese military. Congolese helicopter gunships swooped over the p ...
GOMA, Congo (AP) — Panic spread in Goma on Thursday, with M23 rebels steadily inching closer to the city in eastern Congo as they battle the Congolese army. Bombs were heard going off in the distant ...
M23 rebels are on the edge of Goma in eastern Congo. Thousands of people have been displaced. We speak to MSF Operations Coordinator for Central Africa. Access to social media is now blocked in South ...
Displaced Congolese make their way along the road leading to the centre of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, as the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group continues to gain ground.
The last two towns before Goma, a provincial capital in Congo’s east, have just fallen to M23 rebels. They last captured the city in 2012.
With babies in tow and mattresses over their heads, thousands of displaced people reached the outskirts of the eastern city of Goma, after fleeing M23 rebels who seized the town of Minova this week.