Hundreds of Congolese women were raped and burnt alive after Rwandan-backed militants raided a prison. The female inmates ...

HUNDREDS of women were raped and then burnt alive after Rwandan-backed rebels stormed a female prison in Congo. The sickening ...

Widow Francine Nsengiyumva and her three children have little to eat and sleep on the hard ground, but like many others at a ...

In a harrowing account of violence and brutality, more than 100 female prisoners were raped and burnt alive during a ...

The use of rape and sexual violence against women has been prevalent in the conflicts, which have been raging for decades in ...

Democratic Republic of Congo - A million displaced, one story at a time: Protecting women and girls in the heart of conflict ...

Rebels have seized control of large areas of Goma, setting up checkpoints and severely restricting humanitarian access, ...

The capture of Goma, the main city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, last week by the M23 rebel group follows a ...

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) leaders have strongly condemned the ongoing violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where recent clashes have left soldiers dead and ...

United Nations agencies called for an end to the violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as fighting ...

but like many others at a makeshift displacement centre in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo she is scared to return home. On Sunday, she and other women and children gathered outside at the ...