UN human rights experts on Thursday condemned acts of “extreme violence” committed by the M23 (Movement du 23 Mars) armed group against human rights defenders in the North and South Kivu provinces ...

Two mass graves containing a total of at least 172 bodies have been found in the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern city ...

Residents of Uvira in eastern Congo are expressing concerns that decomposing bodies might spread disease after authorities said 171 bodies were found in mass graves ...

The governor of South Kivu province, Jean-Jacques Purusi, told The Associated Press news agency on Thursday that authorities ...

Fresh allegations of a large-scale killing have surfaced in eastern Congo after local officials reported the discovery of mass graves in areas recently vacated by M23 rebels, even as a U.S.-brokered ...

Congolese authorities and a civil society group say they found mass graves in an area of eastern Congo that the M23 rebel group has recently withdrawn from, as fighting in the region escalates despite ...

It is a war for control over some of the world's richest mineral reserves and the violence is heightened by long-standing ethnic and political tensions. In the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, ...