Human rights group Amnesty International accused the M23 rebels in eastern Congo of killing, torturing and forcibly disappearing civilian detainees in two rebel-controlled cities.

Senegal. Feb. 1, 2025 After a week of fighting, rebels backed by Rwanda have wrested almost full control over Goma, a city of two million in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Hospitals are ...

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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Bodies are lying on the streets ... It remained unclear how much of Goma is controlled by the rebels, who marched into eastern Congo’s strategic city early Monday ...

A glimpse of life after the siege in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, as some semblance of a tenuous peace returns, as does the fear of reprisals. Goma, a key hub in Eastern Democratic Republic ...

Les tirs résonnent encore mardi dans certains quartiers de Goma, dans l’est de la RDC livrée aux combats entre forces armées congolaises et le M23 allié à des troupes rwandaises ...

Joseph Kabila, qui séjourne depuis dimanche dans la ville Goma, chef-lieu de la province du Nord-Kivu entièrement occupé... - ...

And this can only be done through culture. Here in Goma you have your culture. We in Senegal have our culture. Rwanda the same thing, Burundi the same thing. If we unite our culture I think we ...

By Caleb Kabanda and Ruth Maclean Photographs by Guerchom Ndebo Caleb Kabanda reported from Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Ruth Maclean from Dakar, Senegal. A rebel militia backed by ...

Troops from other countries contributing to the UN mission in Goma – including Uruguay, India and Senegal – are remaining in the city despite the risk, the official said. In Ottawa ...