The Rwandan shore of Lake Kivu offers leisure and relaxation. Across the border in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the same ...

Traders and travellers packed their belongings and paid their fares early on Tuesday for the long boat journey across eastern ...

Bukavu and Goma, on the southern and northern edges of the sprawling Lake Kivu, both sit on the border with Rwanda, whose exports of minerals smuggled out of Congo have spiked in recent years ...

A gorilla has died after not waking up from general anaesthesia at Paignton Zoo. Kivu, a 22-year-old western lowland gorilla, died on Thursday following a health check. The zoo said Kivu's keepers ...

M23 rebels and Rwandan troops took what was seen as the last military obstacle in the area of Kavumu, home to the airport that serves the South Kivu provincial capital of Bukavu. The M23 group is ...

Corneille Nangaa, leader of the Congo River Alliance which includes M23 rebels, said the rebels had entered the South Kivu provincial capital. The Rwandan-backed militants' progress comes despite ...

The city, which borders Rwanda, is on the southern tip of Lake Kivu and is an important transit point for the local mineral trade. Earlier on Friday, rebel fighters had entered the airport some ...

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In Goma, a city to the north that M23 captured late last month, thousands remain without access to clean water, forcing residents to collect supplies from Lake Kivu, where bodies from the fighting ...