The Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo ‘s key city of Goma sought to reassure its residents Thursday, holding a ...

At least 165 women were raped by male inmates during a mass breakout from a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo, ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for mediation in the eastern Congo ahead of two meetings to address ...

Antonio Guterres called upon the global community, including DR Congo’s neighbors, as well as regional organizations, such as the African Union, to step up their effort for resolving the crisis ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group continued its advance Thursday through eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and looked ...

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

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

Speaking from Goma, the U.N's deputy head of its mission there said the situation remains highly volatile, with a persistent ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council should create an independent mandate to investigate abuses by all parties to the ...

“We are constantly waiting for the bombs.” Congo, the United States and U.N. experts accuse Rwanda of backing the M23, mainly composed of ethnic Tutsis who broke away from the Congolese army over a ...

The Congolese government in Kinshasa and United Nations experts accuse neighboring ... to speed up the transport of minerals from southern Congo and Zambia to Angola's Atlantic coast.

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