The DR Congo army and M23 on Friday clashed outside Goma as the UK, US and France urged citizens to leave the main city in DR Congo's volatile east, warning the situation could deteriorate rapidly.

The meetings, attended by Uganda's Permanent Representative to the UN, Adonia Ayebare, sparked speculation regarding the key topics discussed, including the ongoing M23 insurgency in the ...

Missiles are flying above civilians' homes as fighters fire heavy artillery in Goma's city centre, an International Committee ...

As M23 rebels closed in on Goma, a major city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the US, UK and France on Friday called on their nationals to leave the area. Clashes between the Congolese army ...

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While M23 rebels closed in on Goma, a major city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the US, UK and France on Friday called on their nationals to leave the area. Clashes between the Congolese ...

As I reached a checkpoint near a police post formerly run by the Congolese authorities, gun-toting fighters from the M23 rebel group stopped my car. The M23 captured Goma, a city of nearly two ...

The M23 rebel group has made significant territorial gains along the Rwandan border in recent weeks now claiming Goma, the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The offensive ...

She previously worked on the UK Breaking News team, and spent eight years in Westminster as a UK political correspondent - a period which included the Scottish independence referendum, Brexit and ...