Burundi is facing a rapidly worsening humanitarian situation as more than 40,000 people have fled there in two weeks to ...

As fighting continues in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the humanitarian situation is fast deteriorating in neighbouring Burundi, with daily arrivals increasing through its ...

Peatlands around the globe hold more carbon than all the world’s forests, and yet new research reveals a much lower ...

Since Goma fell, I’ve lived in fear. I don’t dare leave my house.” These are the words of Justin Shamutwa Masumbuko, general ...

As Heads of States arrive in Dar es Salaam today for a joint Summit of the EAC and SADC, close to a million Congolese are on ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — None of Zawadi Sifa's seven children have known ... said the city has been "liberated and sanitized” and ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council today agreed by consensus ... to the armed conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The council reached its decision during a special session ...

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GENEVA — The U.N.’s top human rights body on Friday condemned Rwanda’s support of rebel fighters across the border in eastern Congo and ordered a team of experts to examine rights violations ...

Patrick Muyaya Katembwe, DRC's communications minister, told the council, "The Democratic Republic of Congo calls for establishing an international commission of inquiry to examine the human ...

Since the resurgence of the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group at the end of 2021, hundreds of thousands of Congolese have fled the conflict in the east of the country, in the face of brutal abuses ...