Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo’s major city of Goma have targeted relatives of fleeing Congolese soldiers. That's according to the soldier's families.

Mu itangazo, Human Rights Watch ivuga ko abaturage babarirwa mu bihumbi bahatiwe n'umutwe wa M23 kuva mu nkambi bari bahungiyemo kandi bakorewe ibyaha by'ubugome

People who were displaced by the fighting between M23 rebels and government soldiers prepare to leave their camp following an instruction by M23 rebels in Goma

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 the rebels seize the region’s largest city of Goma.

A Bloomington psychotherapist is trying to show the devastation of war through her photos. Laurie Bergner saw impoverished people in refugee camps near Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Seventy Christians were discovered beheaded inside a Protestant church in the Democratic Republic of Congo s North Kivu Province, according to reports, which say the victims had been kidnapped by

The city of Bukavu has reopened after bracing for a potential attack by M23 rebels, who have already captured the city of Goma. At least 3000 people have died in the violence. Ida Sawyer, Director of Crisis,

Congolese people displaced following recent clashes between the M23 rebels and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC), leave the camps and return to their homes after the M23 rebels instructed them to vacate the camps in the outskirts of Goma,

The Congolese army called on deserters to rejoin their units on Thursday, as rogue soldiers fired guns and looted parts of the eastern town of Lubero after fleeing nearby clashes with advancing Rwandan-backed rebels.

Amategeko mpuzamakungu agenga n'imigwi igwanira mu buseruko bwa Congo, arabuza ko abasivire birukanwa aho bari kiretse ari ku mpamvu y'umutekano wabo canke za gisirikare.

Internally displaced people (IDPs) near eastern city of Goma board pirogues on Lake Kivu after leaving the nearby Bulengo IDP camp. They were fleeing renewed fighting between the DRC army and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels n the area.

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