Geneva — The number of internally displaced people within the Democratic Republic of Congo has reached a record 6.9 million due to escalating violence, the United Nations said Monday.

Once crowded with white makeshift huts, the huge Kanyaruchinya camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Goma, in war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, looked eerily empty on Sunday. - Under ...

The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo must lead protection of internally displaced persons across the country, where over 7 million people have been driven from their homes by ...

People displaced by the fighting between the M23 armed group and Congolese government forces leave their camp following an order from the M23 in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, February 11 ...

A violent conflict has long besieged the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), but the crisis has escalated since October. As Doctors Without Borders project coordinator in ...

Displaced civilians in Democratic Republic of Congo face frenzy of fear and uncertainty. A Sky News team was attacked in Goma because people fleeing the escalating conflict thought they were ...

The Humanitarian Coordinator in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, David McLachlan-Karr, today expressed his outrage following a new attack by an armed group on a site hosting internally ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), located in Central Africa, has spent decades in the grip of violent conflict and economic unrest, leading to the country being featured on the IRC’s Emergency ...

With 4.6 million internally displaced people, North and South Kivu are among the hardest-hit regions of the DRC, where families are uprooted time and again.Many have lost everything — their homes, ...