Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

GOMA, Congo -- Fighting last week between Congolese government forces and Rwanda-backed rebels in the major eastern city of Goma left at least 900 people dead, the U.N. health agency said Monday ...

Once crowded with white makeshift huts, the huge Kanyaruchinya camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Goma, in the war-torn ... about finally going home. Some said they were relieved ...

Widow Francine Nsengiyumva and her three children have little to eat and sleep on the hard ground, but like many others at a ...

Since Goma was taken by Rwanda-backed M23 fighters ... Many had mixed feelings about finally going home. Some said they were relieved, others stressed they had no choice. All worried about their ...

The overall population in Goma, a city of 1 million people, has nearly doubled in the past 30 years, swollen by victims fleeing violence. At the camp, now a deserted, littered field, some said they ...

But, there was no sign of them giving up control of Goma at the heart of a region home to trillions of dollars in mineral wealth. "It must be made clear that we have no intention of capturing ...

Nearly 3,000 people were killed in Goma last week, according to early estimates provided by the UN peacekeeping operation in ...

Congo’s Goma city was already home to thousands of people who had fled years of war as rebel groups jostled for control of ...

Many had mixed feelings about finally going home. Some said they were relieved, others stressed they had no choice. All worried about their future. War-displaced people leave their camp on the ...