More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire ...

Regional leaders call for immediate ceasefire in DRC as Rwanda-backed M23 group advances, raising fears of regional war.

Storyline: As senior officials from east and south African nations gathered in Tanzania on Friday for a joint summit to ...

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

The summit called for army chiefs from both communities 'to meet within five days' about immediate and unconditional ...

The sight of unattended bodies on the streets underscores the urgent need for proper identification and dignified burials, ...

The M23 rebel group have captured the city of Goma in the eastern DRC in a major escalation of a drawn-out conflict.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed in Goma last week, according to early estimates provided by the UN peacekeeping operation in ...

On 6 February, the Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) – which includes the M23 rebel group backed by Rwanda – held a rally in Goma, ...

United Nations agencies called for an end to the violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as fighting ...

The Joint Summit reiterated its demand for the withdrawal of uninvited foreign armed forces from DRC territory, with leaders ...

Essential services have been badly affected by the fighting in the past few days in Goma, the largest city in North Kivu, ...