President William Ruto and the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday, February 21, 2025, held a third phone ...

The United States has sanctioned a Rwandan government minister for his alleged role in the conflict in neighboring Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels are battling the Congolese army and have captured ...

The DRC illustrates how millions of people in fragile, violent and conflict-affected parts of the world are at risk of ...

Goma is a humanitarian relief hub for all of eastern DRC, and was the epicentre of a vast crisis before it fell. It hosted ...

UNITED NATIONS — A UN official in occupied Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, said on Wednesday that the city is in a state of crisis as humanitarians fight the risk of epidemics, amid a new ...

The rebels captured Goma, a city of 2 million people ... and may be able to subdue the M23 insurgency. France has given its backing to the DRC government and has warned of the catastrophic ...

Meanwhile, in the Congolese capital Kinshasa, 1,600 km (1,000 miles) west of Goma, protesters attacked a UN compound and embassies including those of Rwanda, France and the United States on ...

After a lightning offensive, M23 rebels now control Goma, a large city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Rubio stressed that the US is “deeply troubled by the escalation of the ongoing conflict in eastern DRC, particularly the fall of Goma to the Rwandan-backed M23 armed group.” Rubio called for ...

“What Rwanda is doing is with the complicity of France, the US and Belgium ... Warehouses with food and medical supplies in Goma have been looted, the UN’s World Food Programme said on ...

Goma is a regional trade and humanitarian hub ... U.N., several countries including the United States, United Kingdom and France have condemned Rwanda for the rebel advance. The country, however ...