The situation in Africa’s Great Lakes Region, in particular the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has remained ...

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 ...

Rescuers have recovered at least 23 bodies after a boat that was reportedly carrying hundreds of people capsized Thursday on Lake Kivu in eastern DR Congo, local authorities said.

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

“This exacerbates the climate of violence.” On June 9 Gen. Janvier Ngowa, a commander of the armed group known as the Patriots' Alliance for a Free and Sovereign Congo (Alliance des patriotes ...

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 ...

The situation in Africa's Great Lakes Region, in particular the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has remained ...