The remains of a Congolese customs worker who was killed for resisting a bribe and beatified by the Vatican have been ...

The signing of a peace agreement between the governments of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda in Washington has ...

GOMA, Congo — Street lights erase the shadows where attackers once hid. Noisy, polluting diesel generators have gone silent. New businesses are taking root. In several Goma neighborhoods where ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels say they are now in control of the key eastern Congolese city of Goma. Their fighters continue to claim more territory in one of the world's most mineral-rich territories.

The decades-long conflict in eastern Congo escalated in January, when the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels advanced and seized the ...

Goma, a key hub in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, fell to the M23 rebels and Rwandan forces earlier this week after days of fierce street combat with Congolese forces in the city of over 2 ...

“Goma is a strategic and highly symbolic city with an international airport, as well as proximity to Rwanda and Lake Kivu, opening the easy path with South Kivu,” he said.

The fall of Goma was followed by M23’s rapid advance into new territory. In February, it captured Bukavu, the largest city in nearby South Kivu province, securing the the full length of Rwanda ...

Miguel Masaisai, a 23-year-old athlete from Goma in Democratic Republic of Congo, is cycling 6,000 kilometres from his ...

Pope Francis recognized Floribert Bwana Kositi, a customs officer killed in 2007 for refusing a bribe, as a martyr of the ...

The remains of a Congolese customs worker who was killed for resisting a bribe and recently beatified by the Vatican were transferred from a public cemetery to a cathedral in Congo’s eastern city of ...