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

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

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

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 ...

The M23, whose top brass are mostly Congolese Tutsi, began its insurgency more than three years ago after a decade of ...

Approximately six million people have died in the conflict in the eastern D.R.C. since 1996. For decades, numerous armed ...

Fighting across the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and "is still very much ongoing ... it's not over ...

The U.N.’s top human rights body has condemned Rwanda’s support of rebel fighters across the border in eastern Congo and ...

Many decomposing bodies remain in certain areas, particularly around Goma's airport and ...