Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

Critical minerals factor into the fight.

Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.

There is a good chance that inside your mobile phone is a miniscule amount of a metal that started its journey buried in the ...

Residents walk by charred vehicles in Goma, Democratic republic of the Congo, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025 ...

Gunfire rang out across Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday as M23 rebels and Rwandan forces were spotted ...

As an uneasy calm returned to the Congolese city of Goma, following a unilateral ceasefire declared by the rebels, people ...

Nearly 300 foreign mercenaries hired by the Democratic Republic of Congo government to counter a swift offensive by ...

The United Nations confirmed at least 900 people died in the fighting and another million were displaced, but the full scale of the human toll is still emerging. Many of those who died are women and ...

The largest city in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo ... the map of the region—and, in doing so, risk another catastrophic African war. The origins of events in Goma go back decades.

Map: The Economist Goma is more than 1,500km east of Kinshasa, Congo’s capital, but just 100km west of Kigali, the Rwandan one. It is the hub of what Mr Kagame sees as Rwanda’s sphere of ...

The DR Congo army and M23 on Friday clashed outside Goma as the UK, US and France urged citizens to leave the main city in DR ...