The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group were threatening another key town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday as the ...

The U.N. human rights chief said on Friday that he was deeply disturbed by the escalating crisis in eastern Congo, urging all ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels say they are now in control of the key eastern Congolese city of Goma. Their fighters continue to ...

The UN’s top human rights body is holding an urgent session on spiralling violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of today’s violence can be traced back to old problems.

Now is the time to end the crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN Secretary-General said on ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights urged “all those with influence” to move quickly to end the deadly ...

Rebels occupying the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma have declared a cease-fire but the government dismissed the pause in the fighting as a ruse aimed to head off growing ...

We, the undersigned 75 Congolese, regional, and international human rights organizations, write to appeal to you to urgently work to establish, in the context of a special session of the UN Human ...

As fighting between M23 rebels and Congolese armed troops escalate in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ... while the United Nations and the United States classify it as an armed rebel ...

More than 700 people have been killed and 2,800 injured in just five days since fighting escalated in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between January 26-30, UN Secretary-General ...

GOMA, Democratic ... The United Nations, including Security Council members such as the U.S., France and the United Kingdom, agree that Rwandan forces are operating in Congo.