United Nations agencies called for an end to the violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as fighting between

Between 700,000 and 1 million people are living in refugee camps around the capital of North Kivu. Their critical situation has become uncertain since the city was taken by rebels and Rwandan soldiers.

President of the Democratic Republic of Congo said on Thursday that his troopers are fighting an insurgence by the Rwandan-backed militant group M23 which recently captured swaths of land in the east.

There was gunfire Tuesday in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma, as the United Nations warned of a worrying humanitarian situation amid clashes between Congolese soldiers and Rwandan-backed rebels who attacked the area and claimed to be in control.

At least 111 bodies were found in Goma, DRC after clashes between the army and the armed group M23 Movement, a local leader told EFE.

Fighting across the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and "is still very much ongoing ... it's not over yet," senior U.N. official in Congo, Bruno Lemarquis, said on Monday after Rwandan-backed M23 rebels claimed to have control of Goma.

The eastern DRC city of Goma was seized by M23 rebels and their Rwandan allies on 26 January. Residents have emerged to count the dead and make sense of the fast-moving offensive.

A major offensive by Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in east Democratic Republic of Congo appeared to have stalled on Saturday after the army took back some ground, two civil society sources and a local official said.

At least 700 people have been killed over the past week in Goma, the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, or DRC. Observers believe that M23’s war with government forces, which displaced 400,