Sixteen-year-old Darkuna watched, terrified, as six gun-wielding men ransacked her home. She would become one of many ...

More than a month after rebels captured Goma, the capital of DRC’s North Kivu province, humanitarian workers dispute the UN’s ...

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...

The Banyene family’s return to Sake, a town in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was far from a homecoming.

Frank, a World Vision staff member, lost two family members—Laurianne and Jean-Pierre—when the M23 siege on Goma turned their ...

A professor of global health was in Kivu when the fighting began to rage. She recounts what she and her colleagues ...

Goma, the province’s capital, was seized in November, the most notable advance by a rebel group since the conclusion of the Second Congo War. In this photo taken Wednesday, July 17, 2013 ...

As Rwanda-backed rebels closed in on eastern Congo's largest city, retreating army soldiers barged into Suzanne Amisi Wilonja ...

But while Rwanda appears peaceful at home, it is fueling war across the border ... Rwanda denies backing the rebels. Map locates Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gisenyi in Rwanda.

"This is the most worrying period of Goma's history," he said ... for control of these riches could trigger a new regional war, with implications far beyond Africa. Either way - if history ...

In 2009, in Goma, a local church was turned into a refugee camp where those fleeing from the horrors of war could feel safe and secure. Image courtesy of Steve Evans via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Your phone, a rare metal and the war in DR Congo However ... having entered at around 08:00. Goma was falling. The women did not seem to matter - in or out of prison. Göktay Koraltan / BBC ...