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 ...

On Jan. 28, the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 captured Goma, capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich ...

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

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have seized control of a mining town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province, eight sources said on Wednesday, in an apparent violation of a unilateral ...

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

While the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the East African Community (EAC) scramble toend the fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) a war of words between South ...

DRC President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwandan President Paul Kagame will attend a summit on Saturday as a Rwanda-backed armed ...

The violence in eastern Congo has escalated. Near Goma in North Kivu, 13 peacekeepers have been killed by M23 rebels, while ...

(Reuters) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that eastern Congo’s M23 conflict risks spiralling into a broader regional war, his spokesperson ... flared more fiercely in ...

Since peace talks failed, M23 fighters backed by Rwandan troops have gained swathes of territory in east DRC in recent weeks ... the risk of a broader regional war," the statement added, demanding ...