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

Prison conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo have deteriorated, with cases of torture and sexual violence being reported in detention centres run by the intelligence services, the U.N. High ...

Doctors Without Borders says that it treated more than 25,000 victims of sexual violence in the Congo last year, by far the highest level it has seen there and most of it in the east where armed group ...

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as elsewhere in the world, the ICRC works according to its principles of neutrality, impartiality, and independence. Its role is to protect the lives and ...

DRC accuses Rwanda of violating its sovereignty and territorial integrity by sending troops to help armed groups. The East ...

Sometimes, one can be the beginning of the other. The Christian Science Monitor's coverage of the war between Hamas and Israel, and related articles. A deeper view that unites instead of divides ...

It was a war that the U.N.’s O’Brien, presumably with the full approval of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, had started in an attempt to bring Tshombe back under the authority of the Congo ...

Sexual violence is a chronic problem in Congo’s prisons. In September 2020, a prison riot at Kasapa Central Prison in Lubumbashi caused a fire in the women’s section that forced the female ...

Boat accidents have become frequent in DR Congo where water transport is common due to mostly impassable roads. Such accidents often result in huge death tolls.

BUNIA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sept 17 (Reuters ... other communities including Hema herders that could constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity. At around midnight, fighters ...

Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo — 'We just want peace and that ... among themselves to reflect on the impact of the war and prospects for peace. A few weeks ago, more than 10,000 people ...