Artillery explosions can be heard regularly from Goma. Fighting is taking place on all the roads around Goma and has led to a ...

the administrative centre of the Masisi territory, in North Kivu. Days before, they’d captured another town Katale. Thousands of people have fled and been displaced by the fighting. The ...

the administrative capital of the Masisi territory in North Kivu province. From January 1 to 6 alone, intense fighting in the Masisi and Lubero territories forced around 150,000 people to flee ...

In North Kivu, more than 110,000 displaced individuals left the provincial capital, Goma, and began to migrate to villages in the Masisi, Rutshuru, and Nyiragongo territories UN, February 12.

Two weeks after taking hold of Masisi, the capital of Masisi territory, in DR Congo’s North Kivu Province, M23 rebels on Tuesday, January 21, captured another town, this time in South Kivu ...

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 ...

More than 230,000 people have been displaced since the beginning of the year amid escalating violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to the United Nations. The UN refugee ...

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