The DRC illustrates how millions of people in fragile, violent and conflict-affected parts of the world are at risk of ...

I fled the fighting in Bweremana between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo [FARDC] and the M23 armed group ...

Nearly 3,000 people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the United Nations, after it was captured by rebels following days of fierce ...

A rebel alliance spearheaded by the ethnic Tutsi-led M23 militia said it had seized the lakeside city of more than 2 million people.

Crime has increased in eastern DR Congo's two major cities which were recently seized by the Rwanda-backed M23, the UN's ...

At least 700 people have been killed since Sunday in the intense fighting in Goma, a UN spokesman said Friday. “The World Health Organization and its partners conducted an assessment with the ...

Rebels in eastern Congo's largest city, Goma, began a ceasefire on Tuesday and people rushed to bury some 2,000 victims of last week's battles for the city as they feared the spread of disease.

The UN human rights chief accused Rwanda-backed rebels who seized a second major city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...

In the Congolese capital Kinshasa, 1,600km west of Goma, protesters attacked a UN compound and embassies including those of Rwanda, France and the United States, expressing anger at what they said ...

We are shocked by the sheer number of deceased individuals retrieved from the streets and Lake Kivu,” the experts said.

Dead bodies were scattered in the streets of Goma and hospitals were overwhelmed with patients with gunshot and shrapnel wounds, a day after Rwanda-backed rebels marched into the biggest city in ...