Goma, Rwanda News

Too young to survive alone...Ndeze and Ndakasi, the rare mountain gorilla orphans whose family was massacred, explore their new home with their carers.

Cassandra Nelson is no stranger to conflict and crisis, having worked for Mercy Corps in hot spots all over the world, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza, Pakistan and Darfur.

The top UN official in the Democratic Republic of Congo says UN-backed military operations in the eastern part of the country aimed at rooting out rebels will end at the end of this month.

United Nations - The UN peacekeeping force in Congo is stretched to the limit with an upsurge in fighting in the volatile east and needs more troops quickly from wherever it can get them, the top UN envoy to Congo said on Tuesday.

Last June, Joseph Kabila, the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo came to Goma to mark the Congoa TMs 49th Anniversary.

By Joe Bavier Kinshasa - United Nations peacekeepers have discovered three graves, each containing several bodies, at a military base in eastern Congo recently abandoned by rebels loyal to a renegade general, a UN spokesperson said on Friday.

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo - The tropical rain turns Goma's lava-blackened streets to slurry as thick grey storm clouds thunder overhead.

In an effort to shine a light on the darkness at the heart of the world's deadliest conflict since the Second World War, the Enough Project travelled to eastern Congo to better understand how the 3Ts and gold make their way from Congo's killing fields to our cell phones, laptops, MP3 players and video game systems.

Rwanda is in the slow process of recovery. The tiny landlocked nation has been in the headlines this week after entering the Commonwealth , and resuming diplomatic relations with France.

The arrival of about 12,000 families in the last few months in the territory of Masis and Rutshuru, in the province of North Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has aroused doubts about their origin and raised fear of infiltration of foreigners.

PLANE HITS LAVA ROCK: A plane in the Congo overshot a runway and hit remnants of a 2002 volcanic eruption, injuring 20 people.

THE city of Goma and the surrounding area of eastern Congo hold many dangers, including armed rebellions, famine and volcanic explosions.

I don't sleep here, even with sleeping pills. I wake up after a few hours, images of the day racing through my head, trying to make sense of all I have witnessed and heard.

I knew I shouldn't have gone into the room about children long before I stepped inside.

Main Category: Immune System / Vaccines Also Included In: Aid / Disasters Article Date: 09 Nov 2009 Last month, seven vaccination sites operated by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres came under fire during attacks by the Congolese army against the Forces Democratiques de Liberation ...

It was 10 p.m. in early April when Dieudonne Masha and a neighbor were walking home along the shores of Lake Kivu after a round of drinking.

A year after the UK Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, visited the Democratic Republic of Congo, Christian Aid has warned that military action will not solve the conflict and may worsen it.

The United Nations has suspended assistance to a Congolese army brigade battling rebels amid allegations that its troops killed 62 civilians, including women and children, between May and September.

GOMA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, October 16 Comparing the hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres on Friday urged the international community not to forget the Congolese in their hour of ...

Thursday, October 22, 2009 17:30 Mecca time, 14:30 GMT Rape used as weapon in DR Congo war The Democratic Republic of Congo is grappling with rampant rape, which has become an every day practice and is used as a weapon of war, the UN has said.