Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. People board the first boat leaving Bukavu heading to Goma on Lake Kivu since the eastern Congo city was ...

Embassies have begun using armoured vehicles for trips to the airport and sending some staff across the Congo River to Brazzaville, capital of Republic of Congo. Three Kinshasa-based government ...

People watch the first boat leaving Bukavu heading to Goma on Lake Kivu since the eastern Congo city was taken by M23 rebels Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Janvier Barhahiga) ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels appeared to be heading toward a third major city in eastern Congo, residents said Tuesday, as international pressure rose over the M23's expansion in a ...

Rebels say Congo soldiers 'abandoned' population Army exit gave rise to crime, prison break Rapid offensive has fanned fears of a wider war Congo accuses Rwanda of seizing minerals Feb 17 (Reuters ...

BUKAVU, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels have occupied a second major city in mineral-rich eastern Congo, the government said Sunday, as M23 rebels confirmed they were in the city to restore ...

This weekend, the group entered the gold-trading center of Bukavu in eastern Congo after government soldiers fled. By Elian Peltier and Justin Makangara Elian Peltier reported from Dakar ...

Home to one of the world’s most diverse ecosystems, the Congo Basin casts a sprawling natural tapestry across Central Africa. It is the second-largest tropical rainforest in the world, teeming with a ...

Besides the low-resolution epidemiological data that has been used to identify wide geographical variations in HIV prevalence in urban settings, the actual seroprevalence of HIV across communities in ...

For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering creature living in the Congo River Basin. The alleged dinosaur-like ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels last week captured regional capital Goma in an anarchic and mineral-rich part of Democratic Republic of Congo. Hundreds of women inmates in Munzenze prison of Congo's Goma ...

WARNING: This story contains an image that may be disturbing to some readers. Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have seized control of a mining town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu ...