UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk urged the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the ...

The DRC also holds a vast expanse of carbon-rich rainforest second only to the Brazilian Amazon in area. Conflict threatens that richesse, and nowhere is the situation more dire than in the eastern ...

Donald Trump claimed to have ended the Rwanda-DRC conflict, citing exaggerated numbers. Official records contradict his ...

Following its takeover of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels signalled they were closing in on the key city of Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu. On 30 January, ...

The DRC conflict has been going on for decades. Thousands of innocent lives have been lost while scores of women, children and the elderly have either become internally displaced or rendered refugees.

The intensifying conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has provoked fears of a regional war. Several of the DRC’s nine neighbouring countries, as well as South Africa, already ...

Members of the M23 armed group sit on a pickup truck during a patrol as women carrying fruits walk past a market, following the takeover of the city by the M23 movement in Bukavu on February 18, 2025.

Congolese refugees fleeing ongoing clashes in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo carry their belongings as they arrive at the Rugerero transit camp in Gisenyi on January 28, 2025.[Photo, AFP] A ...

Like many people in DRC, Muhawe Charmante now lives in a collective displacement site in Sake due to the crisis in her country. Yves Kalwira/Oxfam In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a health ...