One reason the M23 and Rwandan Defence Forces were able to advance into South Kivu quickly is that in January, they had ...

The still waters of Lake Kivu stretch all the way to the horizon, undisturbed by the turbulence raging on its shores. Both ...

Even before Goma fell to Rwanda-backed rebels, the city was already knee-deep in a water crisis caused in part by dilapidated distribution infrastructure.The crisis has grown worse since the M23 rebel ...

Internally displaced people (IDPs) near eastern city of Goma board pirogues on Lake Kivu after leaving the nearby Bulengo IDP ...

Approximately six million people have died in the conflict in the eastern D.R.C. since 1996. For decades, numerous armed ...

Feb 14 (Reuters) - Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, have since been advancing around one of Africa's great lakes, Lake Kivu ...

First, M23 fighters and Rwandan soldiers took Minova, a port on Lake Kivu to the southwest, tightening the noose around Goma, which is home to about a million people and nearly as many displaced ...

Goma, a city of 1 million which was already home to an estimated 700,000 internally displaced people before the latest violence, sits on the shores of Lake Kivu on the border with Rwanda. Destin ...

the last hurdle before Goma, all these displaced people found themselves trapped. They had already reached the end of the impasse marked by the impassable shores of Lake Kivu. This time ...

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.

GOMA, Congo (AP) — A weakened Congolese military ... in the previous two days since they started advancing along Lake Kivu on the border with Rwanda. Lacroix said the rebels “seem to be ...

LIVINGSTONE: The severity of the fighting belies the beauty of Goma, which is nestled between a towering volcano and the glittering Lake Kivu, one of Africa's great lakes. These days, the lake ...