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Why Kabila chose Goma for his return
Kabila has returned to the country after more than a year in a self-imposed exile ...
Former Congolese President Joseph Kabila, accused by the government of supporting rebels in the country's east, ...
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) is in crisis. Eastern Congo--previously liberated areas under the control of the Armed Forces of the Congo (AFC) and M23--has endured decades of conflict ...
Nearly 3,000 people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the United Nations, after it was captured by rebels following days of fierce fighting ...
Goma/Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo ... Having taken big provincial capitals in recent weeks, the M23 has vowed to march on Kinshasa and is voicing increasingly national aspirations ...
Goma faces a cash crisis as Kinshasa shuts the local central bank; M23 rebels respond by setting up their own financial institutions.
Republicans split on spending cuts, Medicaid as they seek path forward on Trump tax cuts Congressional Republicans, under pressure to move forward on President Donald Trump's tax cut and border ...
The decades-long conflict escalated in January, when the M23 rebels advanced and seized the strategic eastern Congolese city ...
A Congolese General arrested after AFC/M23 rebels seized Goma, the capital of North Kivu Province in eastern DR Congo in late January, has died, according to reports.
Congolese forces have rescued at least 40 hostages held by Islamic State-linked rebels after an intense battle with the extremists in the country’s hard-hit eastern region KINSHASA ... the region’s ...
A Trump administration official says the United States is in talks with conflict-plagued Congo on developing its mineral resources under a deal that the Congolese president has said could help make hi ...
Congolese authorities say at least 50 people were killed in weekend attacks in the country's conflict-hit east where government forces are fighting Rwanda-backed rebels ...