An offensive by M23 fighters is disrupting health services and displacing people in a region already beset by health ...

The Rwanda-backed rebels who captured a major city in eastern Congo have sought to reassure its residents about their safety ...

The conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo risks escalating into a broader regional war, Burundi's president said Saturday, as Africa's top health agency warned the fighting could spark ...

moving through South Kivu province toward the city of Bukavu. Numbi, another mining area rich in gold, tourmaline and tin, tantalum and tungsten, is also under threat. Corneille Nangaa ...

His remarks came as the M23 pushed south, towards the city of Kavumu in South Kivu. The city has a strategic military airfield and is where the Congolese army has laid down its defensive line just ...

They then shifted their focus to Bukavu in neighbouring South Kivu province and made some progress toward that objective. But since then, the Congolese army and its allies have succeeded in ...

The rebels are now reported to be moving south towards Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu. The conflict in eastern DR Congo dates back to the 1990s but has rapidly escalated in recent weeks.

Until June, the United Nations had peacekeepers deployed in Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province. The U.N. made an agreement with the government to gradually begin drawing down its mission ...

As Uganda battled the outbreak of Mpox, whose infections increased during the December festivities, the country on Thursday confirmed the outbreak of the deadly Ebola after a patient died on ...

Bukavu is the capital of South Kivu province and home to hundreds of thousands of people. Rwandan-backed M23 rebels entered Goma, the capital of North Kivu and the largest city in eastern Congo ...

The withdrawal had been decided: the Blue Helmets already withdrew from South Kivu in June 2024. North Kivu and Ituri provinces were scheduled to follow this year. But then, everything changed.

CELLOU BINANI / AFP The highly contagious Ebola virus has claimed more than ... 2018 and 2020 in the DRC’s conflict-plagued North Kivu province, claiming the lives of nearly 2,300 people.