Médecins Sans Frontières UK2h
DRC: MSF deploys mobile teams as people leave displacement camps around Goma
In response to this development, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has adapted by deploying mobile ...
I experienced the fall of Goma. I had to leave my Congolese colleagues in a critical situation
A professor of global health was in Kivu when the fighting began to rage. She recounts what she and her colleagues ...
A tinderbox conflict in Congo is ready to explode
A conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is set to erupt into a wider ...
The Independent9h
M23 defends raid on hospitals in Goma city
Kanyuka argues that the M23 fighters did not raid but conducted a peaceful operation against 130 Armed Forces of Democratic ...
It’s been a month since rebels seized an eastern Congo city. Goma residents say they are struggling
Rwanda-backed rebels captured a key eastern Congo city a month ago Friday. Residents in Goma say they are struggling on ...
Residents in Goma struggling for basics
Rwanda-backed rebels captured a key eastern Congo city just over a month ago. Residents in Goma, which was once a critical ...
As Rwanda-backed rebels seized Goma, the families of Congolese soldiers became a target
Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo’s major city of Goma have targeted relatives of fleeing Congolese soldiers.
Africanews on MSN7d
DRC: rumours of forced recruitment by M23 spark panic in Goma
After rumors of forced recruitment in Goma by the M23 rebel movement, parents rushed into schools to collect their children, ...
ZAWYA3h
Congo: DRC now imposes ‘entry tax’ on goods from M23 strongholds
According to a statement from the North Kivu DGDA, all cargo coming from M23-controlled areas will be considered as foreign ...
The New Times on MSN1d
Former Belgian senator tours Goma, challenges Western version of events
Following his tour of Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu in eastern DR Congo, Alain Destexhe, a former Belgian senator, said that he found the city to be peaceful as inhabitants went about ...
Why Congo’s Vast Army Is Struggling to Fight a Far Smaller Militia
The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.