The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda have signed a peace deal facilitated by the United States to end the decades-long ...

Families displaced by violence in eastern DRC are rebuilding their lives with support from UNICEF through a cash transfer ...

UN relief chief Tom Fletcher continued his visit Wednesday to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), touring ...

GOMA (January 27, 2025) – Children caught in heavy fighting in the town of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) must be protected, with Save the Children concerned for their safety ...

ALSO READ: Tshisekedi's vast armoury in Goma and plan to invade Rwanda. Minova is a strategic town on Lake Kivu, some 45km by road south of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province.

With the M23 blocking the Minova-Goma road in the months prior to the capture of Goma, the Burundian forces here were able to receive supplies via Lake Kivu.

“The DRC armed forces installed heavy artillery in my village, in Minova. I witnessed a neighbouring family being slaughtered. That’s why I fled here to Goma,” she told Al Jazeera.

28 January 2025. Vivian van de Perre, Deputy Head of the UN Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO), provided a detailed briefing from Goma, highlighting the dire humanitarian situation and the ...

In light of the ongoing conflict, Ms. van de Perre urged the establishment of humanitarian corridors between Goma, Minova and Bukavu, and the reopening of critical airports and border points.

“From Wednesday last week, with the fall of Minova, followed by the fall of Sake, which are key supply routes into Goma, the situation looked a little bit more dire with the imminent takeover or ...

On January 21, 2025, the M23 and Rwandan forces captured Minova, a town 40 kilometers from Goma, cutting off supply routes to the city’s one to two million people.

By seizing Minova, a port city some 20 kilometres (12 miles) west of North Kivu's provincial capital Goma, the M23, which had already practically surrounded the city, has further tightened its ...