Goma in a sentence

About the exhibition, Gareth James, Museum Manager at GoMA, told The Herald: “This has been a once in a lifetime opportunity to work with an artist who has been exciting and challenging people around the world with their work over the past 25 years.

Burundi, the current Chair of the East African Community, has deployed the first batch of its troops to Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

DR Congo soldiers marched in the eastern city of Goma on Tuesday, an AFP journalist said, in a bid to reassure locals unsettled at perceived inaction against M23 rebels.

Every major paper has the story of Guy Goma, who says he wants to sue the BBC over an incident which went viral in 2006.

GOMA, Congo — A suspected extremist attack at a church in eastern Congo killed at least 10 people and wounded more than three dozen, according to the country's army.

In Goma, an eastern commercial hub, a young woman with a baby swaddled to her back had left a polling station the previous evening without being able to vote.

I overheard one of the GoMA team asking a Banksy staffer what “he” looked like.

Prem Kashyap, 15, a resident of Goma Ki Phel, died on Thursday allegedly due to the negligence of the doctors and staff in treatment.

Still, most of the displaced people around Goma who were interviewed said that if they could vote, they would choose Tshisekedi to give him a chance to resolve a chaotic situation that he inherited.

The town represents one of the few remaining trade links to Goma, where prices for consumer goods are currently skyrocketing.

Two other officers were acquitted, including Col. Donat Bawili, who headed the Congolese armed forces regiment in Goma at the time.

A health worker takes a sample at the Mpox treatment centre of the Nyiragongo general referral hospital, north of the town of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on August 16, 2024.

In recent weeks the rebels have come very close to the regional capital of Goma, and some villages are still controlled by the rebels.

North Kivu Military Court, Military Prosecutor v. Mikombe and others, testimony of interim Goma Mayor, Faustin Kapend Kamand, 11 September 2023, on file with Amnesty International.

On August 30, 2023, Congolese security forces killed at least 57 people in Goma, the capital of the North Kivu province.

On May 3 between 10 and 11 a.m., at least three rockets hit displacement camps in Lac Vert and Mugunga neighborhoods, about 15 kilometers west of Goma’s city center.

People displaced by the ongoing fighting gather at refugee camp on the outskirts of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Some observers believe M23 has more or less surrounded Goma, and intends to capture it, as it did in 2012.

The agency further said it received reports of bombs falling on civilian areas in Sake and Goma, where an estimated 65,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) are sheltering.

The agency further said that it received reports of bombs falling on civilian areas in Sake and Goma, where an estimated 65,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) are sheltering, prompting "significant concerns" for their safety.