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

Tens of thousands of IDPs are leaving and routine is tentatively returning, as residents hope for peace despite crisis.

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

Reactions in Goma remain mixed. While some residents welcome the move as a step toward peace, others express deep skepticism ...

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

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

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

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

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

Goma residents began evacuating the city early ... Kenyan President William Ruto confirmed after conferring with his thanked DRC and Rwandan colleagues Etienne Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame respectively.

DRC communications minister Patrick Muyaya confirmed ... This week, the M23 rebel group, which has claimed to have captured the city of Goma, called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire after ...