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

The M23, whose top brass are mostly Congolese Tutsi, began its insurgency more than three years ago after a decade of ...

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

On 6 February, the Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) – which includes the M23 rebel group backed by Rwanda – held a rally in Goma, ...

Tens of thousands of IDPs are leaving and routine is tentatively returning, as residents hope for peace despite crisis.

The M23 rebel group have captured the city of Goma in the eastern DRC in a major escalation of a drawn-out conflict.

Amid escalating conflict in eastern DR Congo, WHO has confirmed that a critical laboratory containing deadly pathogens ...

International: Fighting between Rwandan-backed M23 rebels and Congolese armed forces has exacerbated an already "dire ...

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

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

Essential services have been badly affected by the fighting in the past few days in Goma, the largest city in North Kivu, ...

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