A mass jailbreak was underway on Monday morning at a prison in Goma. The prison was "totally torched" following the jailbreak, that resulted in deaths, a security source told France's AFP agency.

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 ...

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

JEAN BIZIMANA / REUTERS The besieged Congolese city of Goma was rocked by heavy artillery fire on Monday, January 27, as France warned the regional capital was on the brink of falling to militia ...

“As Goma prepares to fall, France expresses its solidarity with the Democratic Republic of Congo and its territorial integrity,” he said. The Tutsi-led rebels have claimed they have "liberated ...

saying Congolese military personnel had to hand over their arms to the U.N. and assemble in a stadium before 3 a.m. France acknowledged that Goma had been captured by M23, according to three ...

France said the offensive “must stop”. “As Goma prepares to fall, France expresses its solidarity with the Democratic Republic of Congo and its territorial integrity. France firmly condemns ...

Agence France-Presse reported. In an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting Sunday, Bintou Keita, head of the U.N. stabilization mission in Congo, said that roads leading to Goma were blocked and ...

Cash has become so scarce in Goma, the eastern Congolese city seized by anti-government fighters in January, that some ...

UN aid agencies are warning of a humanitarian crisis in Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The United States, Britain and France called on nationals to leave Goma while airports and borders are still open, in online statements or in messages sent directly by email or SMS. The UN warned ...