The probe follows deadly clashes that have plagued the region, leading to numerous deaths. Congolese government spokesman ...

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has urged the rebels to lay down their weapons and agree to mediation.

The UN Human Rights Council launched an investigation Friday into alleged violations and abuses committed in the deadly ...

Congo calls an emergency UN Human Rights Council meeting, demanding an urgent investigation of violations it says have been committed by Rwandan-backed M23 rebels.

The United Nations warned Friday that the worst may be yet to come if the violence engulfing the eastern Democratic Republic ...

The UN’s top human rights body is holding an urgent session on spiralling violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels recently captured a key city and some 3,000 people ...

The United Nations warned Friday that the worst may be yet to come if the violence engulfing the eastern Democratic Republic ...

The city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) awoke cautiously as urban life tentatively resumed, ...

More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a United ...

After attacking the eastern DR Congo city of Goma last week, the M23 rebel group unilaterally decreed a humanitarian ...