UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Friday (07 Feb) expressed profound concerns at the ongoing violent escalation in eastern ...

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

Race organiser attempt to reassure those concerned about safety due to developing conflict in the Goma region of DRC ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of ...

The International Criminal Court (ICC), on which US President Donald Trump has imposed sanctions, seeks to investigate ...

A South African defence expert, Helmoed Heitman, says the Southern African Development Community mission in DR Congo (SAMIDRC) is a complete failure and the bloc should negotiate its withdrawal.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights urged “all those with influence” to move quickly to end the deadly ...

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

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group was threatening another key town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Friday ...

Over 150 women were raped and killed during a mass jailbreak in Congo's Goma, as inmates set fire to the prison. The incident ...

If nothing is done in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, worse could follow for the people of the eastern DRC, as well as for the country's neighbours and the region, the United Nations Human ...

Nearly 3,000 people were killed in Goma last week, according to early estimates provided by the UN peacekeeping operation in ...