A senior U.N. official in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Wednesday that nearly 3,000 people have been killed in a ...

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

The U.N. health agency says that fighting last week between Congolese government forces and Rwanda-backed rebels in the major ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The Democratic Republic of Congo has requested an emergency session of the U.N. Human Rights Council to ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has called for an emergency session of the UN Human Rights Council to discuss the ...

Hundreds of women were raped and burned to death after militants raided a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

More than 100 female prisoners were raped and then burned alive during a jailbreak in the Congolese city of Goma, according to the UN. Hundreds of prisoners broke out of Munzenze prison last Monday, ...

The UN's top humanitarian official in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Tuesday called for Goma airport to be urgently reopened, warning its continued closure is paralyzing relief ...

Bodies in the streets, no clean water and an intensifying rainy season trigger escalating health risks in Goma, the ...

Rwanda-backed rebels claimed they captured eastern Congo's largest city, Goma, early Monday, as the United Nations described a "mass panic" among its two million people and Congo's government said ...

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

The U.N. Human Rights Council will hold a special meeting to discuss the situation in the eastern Congo city of Goma after it ...