Crime has increased in eastern DR Congo's two major cities which were recently seized by the Rwanda-backed M23, the UN's ...

The M23 rebels announced the capture of Goma in a statement minutes before a 48-hour deadline imposed by the group for the Congolese army to surrender their weapons expired.

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 ...

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 city of Goma, its ...

The UN human rights chief accused Rwanda-backed rebels who seized a second major city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...

Vivian van de Perre, the deputy head of the United Nations mission in the DRC, told reporters in a video call from Goma that U.N. teams are “actively helping” the M23 to collect the dead from ...

The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Friday 21 February that strongly condemned the ...

We are shocked by the sheer number of deceased individuals retrieved from the streets and Lake Kivu,” the experts said.

Thousands of people affected by the fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are leaving displacement ...

Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo’s major city of Goma have targeted relatives of fleeing Congolese soldiers.

The United Nations Human Rights Council earlier this month launched a commission that will investigate atrocities.

The U.N. Human Rights Council has launched a commission that will investigate atrocities committed by both sides.