one of Africa’s largest. The rebels temporarily took over Goma in 2012, before they were forced to pull out under international pressure, and resurfaced in late 2021, with increasing support from ...

What is happening in eastern DR Congo and Rwanda's role Over the weekend, rebels from the M23 group, supported by the Rwandan army, invaded the outskirts of Goma, triggering mass panic and a ...

The liberation of the city has been successfully carried out, and the situation is under control,” the group’s spokesperson Lawrence Kanyuka said in a statement. There was no immediate confirmation ...

Guatemalan soldiers of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo secure the evacuation of their non essential civil personnel in Goma on January 25, ...

Six United Nations peacekeepers have been killed in eastern Congo amid escalating clashes with the M23 rebel group, according to UN officials. The fallen peacekeepers include two from South Africa and ...

Grieving for the loss of South African soldiers defending the people of the eastern DR Congo, Archbishop Thabo Makgoba, who himself has family in the SA National Defence Force, has composed the ...

Congo requested the meeting, which had originally been scheduled for Monday. On Saturday, Congo’s army said it fended off an M23 offensive towards Goma with the help of its allied forces, including ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Fighting with M23 rebels in eastern Congo has left at least 13 peacekeepers and foreign soldiers dead, United Nations and army officials said Saturday. M23 has made ...

Three South African soldiers were killed and 18 injured ... UN troops deploy outside Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025, as M23 rebels are reported to close in on ...

Two U.N. peacekeepers from South Africa ... Congo, along the border with Rwanda, in a decades-long conflict that has created one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises. On Thursday, M23 took ...