Internally displaced people (IDPs) near eastern city of Goma board pirogues on Lake Kivu after leaving the nearby Bulengo IDP ...

Rwanda-backed rebels took control of Goma, a city on Lake Kivu. Goma Dispatch For those living in Goma, which has been captured by Rwanda-backed rebels, there is little water, little food and much ...

The still waters of Lake Kivu stretch all the way to the horizon, undisturbed by the turbulence raging on its shores. Both ...

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

The fierce clashes between the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the March 23 Movement (M23) armed ...

Approximately six million people have died in the conflict in the eastern D.R.C. since 1996. For decades, numerous armed ...

First, M23 fighters and Rwandan soldiers took Minova, a port on Lake Kivu to the southwest, tightening the noose around Goma, which is home to about a million people and nearly as many displaced ...

Fighting has escalated sharply in recent weeks in eastern Congo, where rebels have seized key towns and are closing in on the city of Goma, the government’s last stronghold in the North Kivu province, ...

Goma is the capital of North Kivu province, fell into rebel hands last week. The capture of Nyabibwe on Lake Kivu brings the rebels a step closer to the provincial capital Bukavu some 70 kms south ...

2:18 Congo rebels vow to stay in Goma, plan ‘liberation march’ to ... previous two days since they started advancing along Lake Kivu on the border with Rwanda. Lacroix said the rebels ...

while others fled by boat across Lake Kivu to Bukavu. Most of the white mercenaries from Romania and Bulgaria fighting for the army managed to leave Goma at the last minute. Some have handed in ...