The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group and the allied Alliance Fleuve Congo have threatened, detained, and attacked journalists, critics, and civil society activists since capturing Goma in January.

After rumors of forced recruitment in Goma by the M23 rebel movement, parents rushed into schools to collect their children, ...

Increased violence in the three easternmost provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is raising deep concern ...

Mount Nyiragongo volcano, an iconic feature of the park, has been almost stripped of trees. ‘Integrated Deforestation Alerts’ (shown by red dots) from Global Forest Watch in Virunga National ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today issued a new position on returns to the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), advising that Congolese nationals fleeing the conflict, as well as those ...

It’s also just 12 miles (19km) from one of the most dangerous active volcanoes in the world: Mount Nyiragongo. Mount Nyiragongo can have lava flows of more than 60 miles (96km) per hour.

Based on early assessments, MSF teams began providing equipment, medicines, and staff to more health centres in the ...

In response to this development, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has adapted by deploying mobile ...

Aid workers and displaced people said that none of the camps in Nyiragongo territory north of Goma exist anymore, and that the residents had either gone home or ended up in churches, schools ...