In a humans rights briefing on Tuesday, High Commissioner Volker Turk said prisoners in Congo were being kept in "disastrous conditions" without access to lawyers or contact with their families.

Nearly a million people within the Democratic Republic of Congo have been displaced from their homes this year, the UN human ...

shows that medics treated an unprecedented number of victims and survivors of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 2023. It is of ongoing concern that this upward trend has ...

Edmond Bahati Monja, a journalist for a Catholic radio station in eastern DR Congo, was assassinated on Friday, September 27.

A Congolese journalist and coordinator of Radio Maria – a Catholic radio station found in the war-ravaged eastern town of ...

The Rwandan army and the M23 armed group have indiscriminately shelled displacement camps and other densely populated areas ...

Doctors Without Borders said on Monday it treated an "unprecedented" number of victims of sexual violence in Democratic Republic of Congo in 2023.

Residents said UN troops sexually abused women and carried out anti-rebel airstrikes that endangered civilians.

30 September 2024 — Mobilization at the national, regional and international level are needed to support the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the face of continued violence in the east ...

Congolese authorities have started vaccinations against mpox, nearly two months after the disease outbreak that spread from ...

DR Congo has been plagued by violence orchestrated by different armed groups for nearly three decades. More than 900,000 people were recently displaced in the three eastern provinces of North Kivu ...

Congo remains a priority, he said. WATCH: Why it’s so difficult to get mpox vaccines to areas facing an outbreak At the vaccination drive in Goma, Dr Jean ... by armed violence unfolds there.