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

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 ...

Protestant and Catholic leaders are united in their prayers that peace and humanity will return to the troubled country.

The city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) awoke cautiously as urban life tentatively resumed, ...

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

DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA | Xinhua | African leaders on Saturday called for an “immediate ceasefire” in the eastern Democratic ...

On Jan. 28, the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 captured Goma, capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich ...

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

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

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 ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has rapidly seized swathes of territory in the mineral-rich eastern DRC in an offensive ...