Up to 167 women have been raped and killed after prisoners escaped jail in the DRC, according to a UN document seen by the BBC.

The United Nations confirmed at least 900 people died in the fighting and another million were displaced, but the full scale of the human toll is still emerging. Many of those who died are women and ...

The United Nations has 14,000 of its blue helmet soldiers in the Kivu region, and this past December, 14 blue helmets were killed. The countries that make up the Southern African Development Community ...

Almost 3,000 people have been killed in fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN has said.

A grim development in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where scores of female prisoners appear to have been ...

Goma remains “under occupation” by Congo’s M23 rebels and the ceasefire they announced has been broken as their forces engage ...

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

The M23 armed group and Rwandan forces launched a new offensive on Wednesday in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, days ...

Rwandan-backed rebels are gaining ground in eastern Congo despite the unilateral ceasefire they declared earlier this week ...

For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

Congo’s government has described the unilateral ceasefire declared by Rwanda-backed rebels in eastern Congo as “false ...

Lubumbashi is little known, but its minerals electrified the world, created atom bombs and are key to greener energy, the ...