Panic is spreading in Goma in eastern Congo as M23 rebels encircle the city, battling Congo’s army. Many civilians have been wounded in the crossfire, stretching the main hospital.

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.

Panic spread in Goma, the capital of DR Congo's North Kivu Province, on Thursday, January 23, with M23 rebels reportedly planning to march on the key city after recently gaining more ground against ...

NZULO – The M23 rebel group's advance toward eastern Congo's largest city has displaced over 178,000 people in the past two ...

Authorities in eastern Congo say M23 rebels have seized the town of Minova, a key supply route for the provincial capital, Goma.

The Congolese army says several towns that fell to armed groups in the eastern North Kivu and South Kivu provinces have been ...

Since moving to the U.S., Pascal Bashombana has wanted kids in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to have an easier ...

M23 and government. forces. Zones occupied. by M23. 200 km. kinshasa. Rwanda. Lake Kivu. Map data: OSM, NASA. Sources: military and humanitari ...

Hundreds of thousands of displaced people have been forced into makeshift shelters around Goma, the regional capital, after losing their homes in the M23 offensive. The rebel group expanded its ...

It is about 80km (50 miles) north of the North Kivu provincial capital Goma, which the M23 briefly occupied in 2012. On Friday, the M23 captured the nearby town of Katale. Last year, there were ...