GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights chief said on Friday that he was deeply disturbed by the escalating crisis in eastern Congo, urging all those with influence to help halt the violence and ...

DAKAR, Senegal — Rwanda-backed rebels have captured eastern Congo’s strategic city of Goma ... threatening to dramatically worsen a dire humanitarian crisis. Since capturing the city early ...

Obasanjo, now 87, was a young officer in the United Nations’ first peacekeeping mission in Africa - Opération des Nations Unies au Congo (ONUC), from July 1960 until June 1964. Another ...

An insurgency led by M23 rebels in eastern Congo has escalated and reached the city of Goma, worsening a humanitarian crisis in a region that suffered two devastating wars between 1996 and 2003.

Fighting in DR Congo has exacerbated a humanitarian crisis, with 700,000 people forced to flee their homes. A pause in US foreign aid has "severely impacted" humanitarian efforts in conflict-hit ...

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The president of Democratic Republic of Congo will skip an upcoming virtual summit of the East African Community (EAC), a meeting called to address the ongoing crisis in his country. A ...