Sixteen-year-old Darkuna watched, terrified, as six gun-wielding men ransacked her home. She would become one of many ...

March 8 holds painful memories for Ezekiel Batsi Batende, pastor of Swahili Baptist Church at Woodmont. On that day in 2008, he and his family fled their home in the Democratic Republic of Congo as ...

A refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo escaped amid tragedy and violence to build a new life in the U.S.

The resumption of hostilities since the M23 (March 23 Movement) rebel group resurged and captured territories in the eastern ...

An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks, health experts say. The interval between ...

But few of the women managed to get away ... Human rights groups say rape is widely used as a weapon of war in DR Congo by both the M23 rebels and government forces. What's the fighting in ...

Photo: Reuters As Rwanda-backed rebels closed in on eastern Congo’s largest city, retreating army soldiers barged into Suzanne Amisi Wilonja’s home near the airport to loot, firing ...

In February 2025, claims (archived) circulated on social media and news outlets including Fox News and Newsweek that 70 Christians were beheaded in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Media reports ...

As Rwanda-backed rebels closed in on eastern Congo's largest city ... there had been an increase in "serious" cases. "There were women and girls who were raped to the point of destroying their ...

Judi Rever is a Montreal-based journalist and author of In Praise of Blood, which investigates mass violence under Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s regime, using survivor testimonies, former ...