The Rwanda-backed rebels who captured a major city in eastern Congo have sought to reassure its residents about their safety.

Failure to seize this moment will only embolden the perpetrators and increase the likelihood of further atrocities' - Agnès CallamardA joint summit on 7 and 8 February will be held for the heads of ...

General, António Guterres has appealed for meditation to end the crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC. He ...

Antonio Guterres called upon the global community, including DR Congo’s neighbors, as well as regional organizations, such as the African Union, to step up their effort for resolving the crisis ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group continued its advance Thursday through eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and looked ...

Nearly three thousand people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo will present a motion to the United Nations Human Rights Council seeking an investigation ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council should create an independent mandate to investigate abuses by all parties to the ...

“We are constantly waiting for the bombs.” Congo, the United States and U.N. experts accuse Rwanda of backing the M23, mainly composed of ethnic Tutsis who broke away from the Congolese army over a ...

The Congolese government in Kinshasa and United Nations experts accuse neighboring ... to speed up the transport of minerals from southern Congo and Zambia to Angola's Atlantic coast.

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FILE - M23 rebels stand with their weapons in Kibumba, in the eastern of Democratic Republic of Congo, Dec. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File) The West is seeing Kim Jong Un's army in action.