UN officials are calling for global attention to the conflict in Congo where M23 rebels confront the national army. The ...

CAPE TOWN - Congolese living in the Western Cape are pleading for the South African government and other African states to act as the war in the DRC wages on. About 150 people took to the streets of ...

UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Friday (07 Feb) expressed profound concerns at the ongoing violent escalation in eastern ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council today agreed by consensus to launch an urgent fact-finding mission and commission of ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of ...

UN human rights chief Volker Turk told an emergency meeting of the Human Rights Council that he was deeply disturbed by the ...

The UN's top human rights body on Friday launched an investigation into alleged abuses during the escalating crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) and adopted a resolution ...

Over 150 women were raped and killed during a mass jailbreak in Congo's Goma, as inmates set fire to the prison. The incident ...

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

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

Rwanda said on Friday it had proof of an intended major attack by the Democratic Republic of Congo and denied it was ...

Clear battle lines between South Africa’s Government of National Unity and US President Donald Trump’s new administration ...