Most recently, escalations in conflict between the DRC and armed groups have plunged the country’s eastern region into chaos, with millions of civilians caught in the crossfire. Reports of war crimes, ...

A devastating report from UNICEF has revealed the horrific scale of sexual violence against children, including infants as ...

With Hutus at the helm, there was systematic repression of the Tutsis. This led to the formation of the Tutsi rebel group, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), which launched a civil war in 1990.

UNICEF recorded nearly 600 cases of rape in the week following the fall of Goma, in the east of the country, at the end of ...

The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has concluded his second visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where his office is exploring measures to deal with war crimes and crimes a ...

The almost eternal cycle of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is fuelling a widespread violence, mass ...

M23, and Makenga, have been accused of war crimes including forced recruitment of child soldiers, massacres, rapes and attacks on civilians in eastern DRC. Meanwhile, Rwandan forces have been accused ...

Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), its prime minister ... has fanned fears of a wider war. The prime minister urged the world ...

If we lived in the Roman Empire two millennia ago, this last week in General Kagame’s life would have been described as horribilis hebdomadal– a horrible week. In a decisive move that underscores the ...

With violence surging in Eastern DRC almost unabated, displacement is soaring, crimes against humanity are being reported ...