DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The number of children and women who are survivors of sexual violence in Congo surged over four fold ...

Maman Soki is among a small group of Congolese women undertaking heavy mining work for survival after escaping a deadly ...

Maman Soki, a Congolese widow, faces immense challenges as she undertakes grueling mining work to support her family after fleeing an attack by Islamic State-allied rebels. She works tirelessly at the ...

An ISIS-linked terrorist group among the many factions fighting in Eastern Congo has reportedly massacred dozens of people ...

The Lisungi project has empowered refugee women in Congo by providing conditional cash transfers, training, and small business grants, enabling them to start agricultural cooperatives and transform ...

Since its founding in 2015, the Lincoln-based One Thread Project has been dedicated to empowering women and children in Congo through education, entrepreneurship and vocational training. With over ...

Shannon sacrificed a comfortable job, left her fiancé and raised $50,000 to sponsor women in Congo. Once there, she documented a seemingly forgotten war and continues her work in the country.

DOSHU, Congo — Zamuda Sikujuwa shuffles to a bench in the sunshine, pushes apart her thighs with a grimace of pain and pumps her fist up and down in a lewd-looking gesture to show how the ...

Sexual violence is rife in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), but urgently needed assistance for survivors has ...

The U.N. human rights office says Congo’s armed forces and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have committed gang rape, sexual slavery, ...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday she would press Democratic Republic of Congo's government to address the root causes of the conflict in the east and stop the use of women as ...

Mangaredjipa, CongoMaman Soki is carrying a heavy sack of debris up a muddy slope at this mine in eastern Democratic Republic ...