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 ...

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 ...

More than 100 female prisoners were raped and then burnt alive during a jailbreak in the Congolese city of Goma, according to ...

Amid the ongoing violence in Congo, hundreds of women in Goma's Munzenze Prison were raped and burnt alive after the city was captured by the rebels.

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

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, ...

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

Fighting across the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and "is still very much ongoing ... it's not over ...

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

There are growing international calls for peace talks to end the escalation of violence in the east of the Democratic ...