More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire ...

Nearly three thousand people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to ...

We reiterate that all returns must be voluntary and take place under safe, informed and dignified conditions in accordance ...

The U.N. health agency says that fighting last week between Congolese government forces and Rwanda-backed rebels in the major ...

A senior U.N. official in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Wednesday that nearly 3,000 people have been killed in a ...

Clashes last week in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, which saw the M23 armed group and Rwandan forces seize control, have ...

The group's capture of most of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, earlier in the week was a dramatic escalation in a region that has seen decades of conflict involving multiple armed groups.

GENEVA: The UN on Tuesday said the humanitarian situation in the besieged DR Congo city of Goma was "extremely worrying" amid ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo will present a motion to the United Nations Human Rights Council seeking an investigation ...

Rwandan forces and the abusive M23 armed group should urgently ensure access to and facilitate the delivery of humanitarian ...

Vivian van de Perre, the deputy head of the United Nations mission in the DRC, told reporters in a video call from Goma that U.N. teams are “actively helping” the M23 to collect the dead from ...

Vivian van de Perre, deputy head of the UN mission in DR Congo, said Wednesday that “so far 2,000 bodies have been collected from the Goma streets in recent days, and 900 bodies remain in the ...