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

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

The Democratic Republic of Congo has requested an emergency session of the U.N. Human Rights Council to discuss the situation ...

The U.N. health agency says that fighting last week between Congolese government forces and Rwanda-backed rebels in the major ...

The U.N. human rights chief said on Friday that he was deeply disturbed by the escalating crisis in eastern Congo, urging all ...

UNITED NATIONS — A UN official in occupied Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, said on Wednesday that the city is in a state ...

DR Congo requested the urgent meeting of the UN's top rights body to discuss escalating fighting by Rwanda-backed armed group ...

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

The Congolese M23 group has accused the UN peacekeepers of facilitating the release of armed FARDC soldiers and FDLR militia in their custody with the intention of killing civilians in Goma city, ...

The UN on Tuesday said the humanitarian situation in the besieged DR Congo city of Goma was "extremely worrying" amid mass ...

According to a UN report, over a third of the population of North Kivu province where Goma is located are currently displaced, and the capture of Goma will likely exacerbate the situation.

Since 2021, Congo’s government and allied forces, including SAMIDRC and U.N. troops, have been keeping M23 away from Goma. The UN peacekeeping force, also known as MONUSCO, entered Congo more ...