Goma's streets bustle with vendors and foot traffic, an almost surreal normalcy in a city that changed hands violently just over a year ago. But walk a block further and the signs of rupture are ...

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People displaced by the fighting with M23 rebels make their way to the center of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa) GOMA, Congo (AFP) — Heavy ...

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, it’s back-to-school season. But in Goma, a city of over two million people, war is looming. Under the control of the M23 rebels, the city is suffocating, ...

As cases spread, containment measures could impact the nascent cultural revival described in this report. GOMA and BUKAVU, Democratic Republic of the Congo A packed crowd pressed against the stage of ...

On Monday, Goma, the largest city in the mineral-rich northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC, formerly Zaire), fell to the Rwandan-backed M23 militia. Situated near the Rwandan border, ...

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 ...

This photo taken on May 11, 2025, shows children playing in front of a building damaged during the conflict at the town of Sake, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). [Xinhua] Once a bustling ...

Rwanda-backed rebels claimed they captured eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma, early Monday, as the United Nations described a “mass panic” among its 2 million people and Congo’s government said the ...