Vivian van de Perre, deputy head of the UN mission in DR Congo, said Wednesday that “so far 2,000 bodies have been collected from the Goma streets in recent days, and 900 bodies remain in the morgues ...

The United Nations has 14,000 of its blue helmet soldiers in the Kivu region, and this past December, 14 blue helmets were killed. The countries that make up the Southern African Development Community ...

A senior U.N. official in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Wednesday that nearly 3,000 people have been killed in a fighting between M23 militants and the national army over control of a key ...

More than 100 female prisoners were raped and then burned alive during a jailbreak in the Congolese city of Goma, according ...

The United Nations meanwhile said the battle for the key city of Goma, which the M23 and Rwandan troops seized last week, had ...

Welcome back to another edition of My Take 5, your weekly round-up of top international news. Conflict in eastern DR Congo raises the spectre of the old Congo wars, Ukraine continues to endure Russian ...

An embassy is an inviolate premise, a foreign territory indeed. This is bad for diplomacy. It is important for the DRC not to ...

According to the United Nations, hundreds of women were raped and then burned alive during a jailbreak in Goma, DR Congo.

The United Nations Human Rights Council should create an independent mandate to investigate abuses by all parties to the ...

Hundreds of Congolese women were raped and burnt alive after Rwandan-backed militants raided a prison. The female inmates were attacked in their wing inside Goma’s Munzenze prison during a mass ...

Protesters accuse the EU of going easy on Kigali over its role in the conflict in DR Congo. Judge issues nationwide ...

The capture of Goma, the main city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, last week by the M23 rebel group follows a ...