The UN Human Rights Council is considering whether to launch an investigation into alleged abuses committed in eastern Congo on Kinshasa's request. Rwanda alleged it was responding to an "imminent" ...

Now is the time to end the crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN Secretary-General said on Thursday in a briefing to journalists in New York.

The U.N.’s top human rights body is holding an urgent session on spiralling violence in eastern Congo, where Rwanda-backed ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group continued its advance Thursday through eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and looked ...

Nearly three thousand people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to ...

The special session of the Human Rights Council was called by the Democratic Republic of Congo with the support of dozens of ...

The M23, whose top brass are mostly Congolese Tutsi, began its insurgency more than three years ago after a decade of dormancy, seizing large parts of North Kivu province before finally grabbing Goma, ...

A rebel group that claimed to have captured the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last week has called ...

Mr Dujarric said within this period, 2,800 people have also been injured, with many warehouses looted and destroyed.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has vowed to keep providing support to the DRC despite nationwide calls to withdraws SANDF troops.

NEWS ANALYSIS. The capture of Goma by the M23 rebel movement and Rwandan army forces has positioned Kigali as the dominant ...

The M23 and Rwandan troops last week seized Goma -- the provincial capital of the mineral-rich Kivu region that has been blighted by conflict.