DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Rwanda-backed M23 rebels abducted at least 130 sick and wounded men from two hospitals in a major city ...

As 120 conflicts rage around the world from the DR Congo to Gaza and from Sudan to Ukraine, UN human rights chief Volker Türk ...

In February 2025, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution agreeing to establish a fact-finding mission on the ...

Here are some of the major stories of the Catholic Church around the world that you might have missed this past week.

FOR over three decades, the global powers at the United Nations have been acutely aware of the complex and tragic dynamics underpinning the violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Since th ...

On Feb. 13, the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly to suspend a cooperation agreement with Rwanda on a trio of minerals ...

Democratic Republic of Congo ex-President Joseph Kabila is gradually emerging from isolation, while those close to him claim ...

U.K. authorities are punishing Rwanda over its support of the rebels who now control two major cities in eastern Congo.

Burundi troops -- allies of Kinshasa -- were still deploying Tuesday in east DR Congo, as the UK announced it was suspending ...

KINSHASA - Three former African leaders have been appointed as facilitators of the latest regional mediation mechanism brokered by two regional blocs over the security crisis in the eastern Democratic ...

Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), its prime minister told ...

Violence raging in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has killed "more than 7,000 compatriots", many of them civilians, ...