Goma

Nick Niarchos reports on the Democratic Republic of the Congo's attempts to use its vast mineral resources as leverage in foreign policy amid military threats.

A global surge in cholera is threatening vulnerable people from Angola to Myanmar, fuelled by conflict, natural disasters and climate change, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.

As the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has intensified in recent months, the UN peacekeeping mission, MONUSCO, has been working to protect civilians - including in areas under the control of the Rwandan-backed M23 armed group in North Kivu province.

DR Congo's prime minister tells the BBC her government will not sit down with the militants.

Around 700,000 people were forced to leave Goma, one of the biggest cities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) when it fell in January to rebels, known as M23. With the conflict spreading, many of them are on the move again but a return home is no guarantee of safety.

The outbreak began in January, with 419 cases recorded so far, and comes after another mystery illness killed 143 in December

Rwanda-backed rebels reached the center of east Congo's second largest city, Bukavu, Sunday after little resistance from government forces, many of whom fled.

With M23 rebels having seized control of Goma, a key city in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), control of the DRC's mineral wealth

Thousands of people affected by the fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are leaving displacement sites in and around Goma for safer areas, the UN humanitarian affairs office OCHA reported on Tuesday.

Mechanical diggers have spent days excavating the dark, volcanic earth of the city of Goma, preparing long trenches in which to bury the victims of one of the deadliest battles in decades in Congo.

Conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has "multiplied" the risk of the spread of diseases, including cholera, malaria, tuberculosis and the deadly mpox...

Determining phase two of the Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal remains a top priority for both leaders.

The announcement comes as M23 rebels tightened their control over Goma city, seizing its airport.

As UN agencies reported "relative calm" on Wednesday in the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), humanitarians warned that the chaos caused by advancing M23 rebel forces could fuel a region-wide health emergency.

Officials warn assault on Goma by Rwandan-backed M23 militia could lead to wider regional conflict

People who fled M23 rebels around Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, have found themselves with nowhere left to go.

Intensifying hostilities in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo involving the non-state armed group M23 have caused further mass displacement in the mineral-rich region, with fears that the regional capital Goma could come under attack, UN agencies warned on Friday.

The last two towns before Goma, a provincial capital in Congo's east, have just fallen to M23 rebels. They last captured the city in 2012.

More than 100,000 people have been displaced since the start of the year in eastern Congo as a result of a new rebel offensive, according to a United Nations...

Congolese authorities have started vaccinations against mpox, nearly two months after the disease outbreak that spread from Congo to several other African countries and beyond was declared a global emergency