Rwandan-backed M23 rebels say they are now in control of the key eastern Congolese city of Goma. Their fighters continue to ...

"We had proposed to both sides that if we could get to stabilization in eastern DRC, we could work on developing a spur from the Lobito Corridor up through eastern DRC," Phee told AFP in an ...

In December, the DRC Ministry of Health announced the emergence of an unknown disease causing influenza-like symptoms. The disease outbreak was identified as a combination of malaria, respiratory ...

M23 rebel fighters in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have taken control of a strategic ... from the major city of Goma, on Saturday, provincial parliament member Alexis Bahunga told ...

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), various armed groups – including both Congolese army and rival armed rebel groups, among them the M23 – occupy mines and trading routes ...

Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo – From ... Zambia and resource-rich Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In DRC, the Lobito Corridor links the mining provinces of Tanganyika, Haut ...

The M23 is a well-armed group named after the date of a long-abandoned peace deal signed on March 23rd 2009. It is led by Congolese Tutsi officers. Sharing the same ethnicity as Mr Kagame, they ...

Mercy Corps’ national office is in Goma with sub-field offices in North Kivu, South Kivu, Ituri and the Kasai. Mercy Corps DRC’s key programming areas include a combination of longer-term development ...