Thousands of families have been displaced by violence in eastern Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels seized the key city of ...

Hundreds of women were raped and burned to death after militants raided a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

HUNDREDS of women were raped and then burnt alive after Rwandan-backed rebels stormed a female prison in Congo. The atrocity happened in the city of Goma when freed male prisoners turned on the ...

During the recent chaos in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, hundreds of female prisoners were raped and burned alive after Rwandan-backed M23 rebels entered the city.The women were attacked in ...

Over 160 women have been raped and children killed in fires after a prison break in war-torn DR Congo, the the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has said. Inmates escaped the ...

Widow Francine Nsengiyumva and her three children have little to eat and sleep on the hard ground, but like many others at a ...

The death toll following a brutal storming from Rwandan-backed rebels in the Congolese city of Goma has neared 3,000 after hundreds of women were ... Republic of the Congo's North Kivu province.

Between 165 and 167 women were assaulted by male inmates during ... Rwanda-backed M23 executed a rapid advance through eastern DR Congo. The city was plunged into chaos, with bodies lying in ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels last week captured regional capital Goma in an anarchic and mineral-rich part of Democratic Republic of Congo. Hundreds of women inmates in Munzenze prison of Congo's Goma ...

but like many others at a makeshift displacement centre in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo she is scared to return home. On Sunday, she and other women and children gathered outside at the ...