The M23 rebel group have captured the city of Goma in the eastern DRC in a major escalation of a drawn-out conflict.

Heavy gunfire resonated across the key eastern Congolese city of Goma on Sunday from the frontline just a few kilometres away.

Tens of thousands of IDPs are leaving and routine is tentatively returning, as residents hope for peace despite crisis.

The main city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has become ... The streets of Goma, a city of one million which sits on the shores of Lake Kivu and on the border with Rwanda, were almost ...

Heavy artillery fire could be heard in Goma on Monday, hours after Rwandan troops and fighters from the M23 rebel group entered the capital of North Kivu Province. The UN has warned of a looming ...

Fighting across the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and "is still very much ongoing ... it's not over yet," senior U.N. official in Congo, Bruno Lemarquis, said on Monday after ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels asserted their control over east Congo's largest city Goma on Thursday by calling on residents to resume normal life, even as the group clashed with Congolese troops as they ...

United Nations agencies called for an end to the violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as fighting ...

M23 fighters and Rwandan troops on Wednesday pushed further into the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, as Burundi ...

An armed group backed by Rwandan troops took control of the airport in the besieged DR Congo city of Goma on Tuesday, a ...

Show more Show less In parts of Goma, M23 fighters were welcomed by celebrating locals Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo ... the shores of Lake Kivu on the border with Rwanda.