The DRC illustrates how millions of people in fragile, violent and conflict-affected parts of the world are at risk of ...

Analysis - The city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was taken over by the M23 rebel group in January 2025. This was a tragic escalation of a decades-long conflict that's led to mass ...

Several groups of artists gathered this Wednesday in Dakar to paint a mural and denounce the violence between the armed group ...

See 12 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

On the streets I once walked and drove down daily, near the shopping centre where I bought my groceries, dead bodies lay ...

Surrounded by majestic lakes and a range of dormant and active volcanoes with its rich and ... through the empty battle-weary streets of Goma looting everything on sight even amidst blazing ...

Goma, which lies at the foot of a volcano near Lake Kivu, sits on the border with Rwanda. It is the capital of mineral-rich North Kivu province - and is an important trading and humanitarian hub and ...

The risk of further eruptions from volcano Nyiragongo led DR Congo authorities to order the evacuation of parts of the city of Goma Thursday, causing an immediate exodus of tens of thousands of ...

Tens of thousands of IDPs are leaving and routine is tentatively returning, as residents hope for peace despite crisis.

A glimpse of life after the siege in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, as some semblance of a tenuous peace returns, as does the fear of reprisals.