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 ...

The UN Human Rights Council has approved an investigation into alleged violations and abuses in the eastern Democratic ...

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 ...

Around 3,000 people have been killed in clashes between M23 rebels and government forces, and thousands more have been ...

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

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

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

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

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

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