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 ...

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

Congo’s largest church organizations met Wednesday with Rwanda-backed rebels in the country’s east in the latest push for peace and dialogue after weekslong fighting that saw ...

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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 ...

Several groups of artists gathered this Wednesday in Dakar to paint a mural and denounce the violence between the armed group M23 and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo in Goma.

More than 100 female inmates of an African prison were raped and burned alive during a jailbreak, the United Nations said.

UN PHOTO Large parts of Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ... Then, after a small group of M23 fighters installed themselves on the flanks of a volcano in the Virunga National Park in ...

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