The United Nations Human Rights Council today agreed by consensus to launch an urgent fact-finding mission and commission of ...

Worse violence "may be yet to come" in the conflict-hit Democratic Republic of Congo, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ...

A single image captures the grim task facing those who needed to find space for the dead after a spasm of violence in Central ...

Previously, the UN reported that around 2,900 people had been killed and 2,880 wounded in Goma as a result of the hostilities ...

The U.N.’s top human rights body is holding an urgent session on spiralling violence in eastern Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels recently captured a major city.

GOMA, Congo (AP) — The Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo 's key city of Goma sought to reassure its residents ...

Approximately six million people have died in the conflict in the eastern D.R.C. since 1996. For decades, numerous armed ...

A Swiss aid group said on Thursday that three of its local employees were killed during an attack while on a humanitarian ...

Nearly three thousand people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to ...

Goma remains “under occupation” by Congo’s M23 rebels and the ceasefire they announced has been broken as their forces engage ...

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

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