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" ...

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

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

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 was threatening another key town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday, as the ...

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

The Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday called for UN Security Council sanctions against Rwanda, saying its forces had crossed into Congolese territory in what amounted to a "declaration of war." ...

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

"Demonstrators setting fire outside of UN premises, both the peacekeeping and some of our agencies, as well as targeting several embassies. Looting has also been reported in Kinshasa," he said.

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

FRANCE 24's Yinka Oyetade speaks to Dr Alex Vines, head of the Africa Programme at Chatham House, about the M23 offensive in ...

Local sources said Kigali-backed fighters were advancing on a new front and had seized two districts in South Kivu province, ...