KAMPALA, Uganda, October 23 (UNHCR) - The latest escalation in fighting in North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has forced thousands more people to flee southwards towards ...

Ugandan soldiers said they ‘occupied’ two DRC towns as the Rwandan-backed M23 continues to hold territory elsewhere.

Kibetsi is one of nearly a million Congolese who have returned to their homes since the M23 rebel group — backed by Rwanda ...

The latest escalation in fighting in North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has forced thousands more people to flee southwards towards Goma and across the border into ...

Around 8,000 Congolese refugees have crossed the border into Uganda to escape the latest round of fighting in North Kivu, the United Nations Refugee Agency said Monday.

Congolese internally displaced civilians carry their belongings as they flee from renewed tensions from Kanyaruchinya to Goma in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

Refugee children, displaced by continued fighting in north Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), play at the Nyakabande refugee transit camp in Kisoro, Uganda, July 13, 2012.

Soon after, M23 took the town of Bukavu, in South Kivu province, and the group has expanded operations in North Kivu. M23 rebels say that they intend to seize power in Kinshasa, 1,600 km (1,000 ...

Currently operating from north North Kivu and south of Ituri Province, where the Uganda People's Defence Forces' Shuuja operation to combat them is located, they could likely be driven out of Kivu ...

The United Nations Refugee Agency, UNHCR, fears for the welfare of tens of thousands of refugees who have fled new violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu region. They have ...