Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The Democratic Republic of Congo will present a motion to the United Nations Human Rights Council seeking an investigation into what it called "mass violations" of rights in the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Zawadi Sifa, right, 35, mother of seven, who has been fleeing fighting from camp to camp, carries water in ...

The conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has caused mass displacement, with over 3.3 million ... natural disasters, epidemics and land and intercommunity disputes. What is ...

In January, rebel fighters claimed the eastern city of Goma in the Democratic Republic ... fertile land—all are hyperlocal drivers of conflict. Then there is the national level. Congo is cursed ...

M23 rebels backed by Rwanda took the city of Goma in a bloody battle. This weekend, the group entered the gold-trading center of Bukavu in eastern Congo after government soldiers fled.

The capture of North Kivu’s provincial capital, Goma, by the M23 armed group last month has multiplied international coverage ...