Up to 167 women have been raped and killed after prisoners escaped jail in the DRC, according to a UN document seen by the BBC.

Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera has ordered preparations for the withdrawal of Malawian troops from eastern DRC. Rwandan-backed M23 rebels seized the town of Nyabibwe in South Kivu, despite ...

The United Nations confirmed at least 900 people died in the fighting and another million were displaced, but the full scale of the human toll is still emerging. Many of those who died are women and ...

The M23 rebel group, which recently captured the city of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), ...

The United Nations has 14,000 of its blue helmet soldiers in the Kivu region, and this past December, 14 blue helmets were killed. The countries that make up the Southern African Development Community ...

Residents in the eastern city of Bukavu pray for peace as fighting with Rwandan backed rebels bereaks out with renewed ...

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

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

According to the United Nations, hundreds of women were raped and then burned alive during a jailbreak in Goma, DR Congo.

The United Nations Human Rights Council should create an independent mandate to investigate abuses by all parties to the ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have captured Nyabibwe in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, escalating tensions despite a ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have seized control of a mining town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province, ...