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

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

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

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

But the conflict still looks set to spread deeper into the DRC. The speed of the M23 advance has taken many by surprise. The rebels captured Goma, a city of 2 million people, within just three days.

The ceasefire announcement by the M23 rebels came shortly after the UN health agency said at least 900 people were killed in ...

The eastern DRC city of Goma was seized by M23 rebels and their Rwandan allies on 26 January. Residents have emerged to count ...

The ongoing M23 offensive in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the most intense escalation of violence in the region ...

MSF teams are treating an influx of wounded people arriving at Kyeshero hospital in Goma, DRC, following the armed clashes ...

In a major escalation in the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), rebels from the March 23 Movement – or M23 – have seized Goma, the capital city of North Kivu province. At ...

Kenya has announced a virtual crisis summit, but Congolese state media says President Felix Tshisekedi will not attend.