One of the most heart-warming stories in Nigeria last week was that seven governors, only three of them from Nigeria, met in Maiduguri to push forward with concerted efforts to salvage the Lake Chad ...

As an uneasy calm returned to the Congolese city of Goma, following a unilateral ceasefire declared by the rebels, people began burying the dead, and agencies rushed aid to thousands of ...

The United Nations confirmed at least 900 people died in the fighting and another million were displaced, but the full scale of the human toll is still emerging. Many of those who died are women and ...

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This development blocked earlier progress, when participants agreed that the Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo ...

Rwanda-backed M23 Rebels Launch New Offensive, Seizes Nyabibwe | Firstpost Africa The M23 rebels have launched a fresh offensive along with Rwandan forces in DR Congo's mineral-rich east days after ...

Continued clashes in South Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are triggering mass displacement and causing civilian casualties, UN humanitarian affairs office OCHA said on ...

Three more humanitarian workers associated with an international charity organization were killed in the eastern North Kivu province of ... situation in the region, which borders Rwanda, on ...

A few days after capturing the strategic city of Goma in neighbouring North Kivu, the M23 armed group ... of reinforcing troops and equipment in the region. Recall that last week’s capture ...

UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- With hostilities subsiding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)'s occupied Goma City in North Kivu province, UN humanitarians said on Friday violence in ...

After capturing Goma, the main city in North Kivu province, last week ... against Goma was a major escalation in the mineral-rich region, scarred by relentless conflict involving dozens of ...