GOMA, Congo — Panic swept through eastern Congo’s second-largest city on Saturday as residents fled by the thousands, scrambling to escape the looming advance of Rwanda-backed rebels.

Angella Ilibagiza, a biomedical engineer from Rwanda, brings a sense of discipline and uniformity to her art, reflecting an almost scientific precision, yet within her structured compositions ...

Rwandan army spokesperson Ronald Rwivanga said that five civilians were killed and 25 were wounded on the outskirts of the border town of Gisenyi. The Rwanda-Congo border near Goma was closed on ...

More than 120 Congolese fighters have been disarmed in Rwanda, the Rwandan army said Monday, as a Kigali-backed armed group entered the Goma, a key city in DRC's perennially restive east.

Congo's government on Monday accused Rwanda of an incursion into the North Kivu province in the east of the country, hours after the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels claimed control over Goma. "The ...

Most of the country’s population still lives in poverty. This year rebels, backed by Rwanda, took over the eastern city of Goma, in a region which has never enjoyed much stability and in which many ...

A summit seeking solutions to the violent conflict in Congo is underway in Tanzania President Paul Kagame of Rwanda ... sees the group as a Rwandan proxy army driven to exploit eastern Congo ...

A spokesman for the Democratic Republic of Congo's army said Saturday: "Rwanda is determined to seize the city of Goma" in the east of the country. General Sylvain Ekenge's comments to journalists ...

Since the M23 resurfaced in late 2021, the DRC army, which has a reputation for ... A UN expert report said last year that Rwanda had up to 4,000 troops in the DRC, seeking to profit from its ...

Congolese government spokesperson Patrick Muyaya said Kinshasa wanted to prevent "carnage," with Rwanda's forces in the east of the country. It comes after the M23 group claimed to have taken the ...

Congo’s leader has called on young people to enlist in the army to help fight Rwanda-backed rebels attempting to seize more territory in the country’s conflict-battered east GOMA, Congo ...

On Thursday, fighting raged between rebels from the Rwanda-backed M23 group and Congolese forces in the town of Saké, the last major army position before Goma, a provincial capital with more than ...