The UN on Tuesday said the humanitarian situation in the besieged DR Congo city of Goma was "extremely worrying" amid mass displacement, food shortages, looted aid, overflowing hospitals and ...

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 ...

Geneva — The United Nations on Friday voiced alarm at rampant ... The group's capture of most of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, earlier in the week was a dramatic escalation in ...

UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Seif Magango ... This week, the M23 rebel group, which has claimed to have captured the city of Goma, called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire after ...

Vivian van de Perre, the deputy head of the United Nations mission in the DRC, told reporters in a video call from Goma that U.N. teams are “actively helping” the M23 to collect the dead from ...

The United Nations' peacekeeping chief said Friday that M23 rebels are advancing south toward the provincial capital of Bukavu after seizing control of Goma in the mineral-rich eastern Congo ...

The takeover of Goma is yet another territorial gain for the Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) rebel coalition, which includes the M23 armed group – sanctioned by the United States and the United Nations.

The Rwanda-backed group shows no signs of ending a prolonged offensive that has triggered a humanitarian catastrophe in the country ...

ICRC Escorts Congo Troops From UN Base in Rebel-Held Goma to Kinshasa (Reuters) -Hundreds of Congolese soldiers and police officers seeking refuge at the United Nations' base in Goma since the ...

Hundreds of Rwandan refugees who were living in eastern Congo since the 1994 genocide in Rwanda were repatriated on Saturday, the U.N. refugee agency said, after Rwandan-backed rebels seized key parts ...