More than 100 female prisoners were raped and then burned alive during a jailbreak in the Congolese city of Goma, according ...

The Rwanda-backed group known as M23 is believed to have been responsible for the incident following its takeover of the city ...

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 Council will hold a special meeting to discuss the situation in the eastern Congo city of Goma after it ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The Democratic Republic of Congo has requested an emergency session of the U.N. Human Rights Council to ...

More than 700 people have been killed and 2,800 injured in just five days since fighting escalated in the east of the ...

The worsening conflict in eastern Congo has led to a surge in human rights violations including summary executions, the ...

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

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

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

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

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