More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire ...

The UN Human Rights Council launched an investigation Friday into alleged violations and abuses committed in the deadly ...

UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Friday (07 Feb) expressed profound concerns at the ongoing violent escalation in eastern ...

UN human rights chief Volker Turk told an emergency meeting of the Human Rights Council that he was deeply disturbed by the ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council is to launch a formal investigation into the human rights violations in the eastern ...

The United Nations warned Friday that the violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo could spiral further, threatening ...

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame was due to meet his Congolese counterpart Felix Tshisekedi in Tanzania on Saturday as regional ...

Regional leaders of eight East African Community (EAC) countries, and the 16-member South African Development Community (SADC ...

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

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of ...

Conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has "multiplied" the risk of the spread of diseases, including ...