The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group was threatening another key town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday, as the ...

The UN's top human rights body on Friday launched an investigation into alleged abuses during the escalating crisis in the ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 has seized vast swathes of eastern DRC and is pressing southwards into South Kivu province, which shares a border with Burundi.

Mutual aid workers – the backbone of the humanitarian response in Sudan – have been caught up in the crackdown. The war in Sudan began in April 2023 and has produced the world’s largest displacement ...

Nearly 3,000 people were killed in Goma last week, according to early estimates provided by the UN peacekeeping operation in ...

The United Nations has called for efforts to prevent the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from ...

The United Nations says more than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak on January 27 in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. More than 4,000 detainees escaped as the ...

Rwanda claims to have evidence of an intended attack by the Democratic Republic of Congo, denying any role in the unrest ...

High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk on Friday warned that the escalating violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) could lead to a further deterioration of the ...

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

The UN warned Friday that the worst may be yet to come if the violence engulfing the eastern DRC spreads throughout the wider region.

The Democratic Republic of Congo will present a motion to the United Nations Human Rights Council seeking an investigation into what it called "mass violations" of rights in the city of Goma. Watch ...