The Democratic Republic of Congo's president has cut short his trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos as a deadly conflict escalates back home. Fighting has intensified in DR Congo's eastern region ...

In the eastern reaches of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the shimmering waters of Lake Kivu meet rolling green ...

As a result of this unrest, Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi cut short his trip ... rich eastern DR Congo since 2021. As a consequence, hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced.

Nearly 3,000 people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the United Nations, after it was captured by rebels following days of fierce ...

Nearly 3,000 people were killed in Goma last week, according to early estimates provided by the U.N. peacekeeping operation in eastern Congo. The fighting between M23, a rebel group that the U.N ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. People fleeing M-23 rebel advances arrive by boat in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Wednesday, Jan ...

There was a short spell of calmness ... The crisis in Congo can be traced to the Rwandan genocide in 1994 in which about 8,00,000 people, mostly Tutsis, were massacred by ethnic Hutu militias.

Up to 6 million people died. But M23 says their fight had nothing to do with natural resources. “Our objective is Congo, we are fighting for Congo ... the international community has stopped short of ...

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo say at least 773 people were killed in a week of fighting in and around the city of Goma, which was overrun by the M23 rebel group on Tuesday.

Residents are leaving their homes with as much as they can carry [Reuters] ...