UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is alarmed by the worsening violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which has already displaced 237,000 people this year.Escalating clashes ...

The M23 armed group has seized further territory in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo and on Thursday was ...

Odette, 44, has already been toiling for hours, tidying her family’s makeshift shelter and pausing to check a pot of beans simmering over an open fire made with wood she collected at first light.

The Congolese army says several towns that fell to armed groups in the eastern North Kivu and South Kivu provinces have been ...

UNHCR is urging the international community to scale up its response to the DRC’s escalating crisis. In 2025, the agency ...

The Congolese army acknowledged on 21 January the advance of M23 rebels in South Kivu province. Backed by Rwanda’s army, the ...

M23 rebels tightened their stranglehold over key trading routes to the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...

M23 fighters in early January captured Masisi, the administrative capital of Masisi territory in North Kivu province. Masisi has around 40,000 inhabitants and is 80 kilometres (50 miles ...

The latest offensive happened last week when the M23 rebels took Masisi, the administrative centre of the Masisi territory, in North Kivu. Days before, they’d captured another town Katale. Thousands ...

Rebels from the Rwanda-backed M23 have killed a military governor as they advanced through eastern Democratic Republic of ...

The Congolese army said some of the recovered towns have been occupied by rebels for months, including Ngungu, a key town in the Masisi territory that is near the North Kivu provincial capital ...