High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk on Friday warned that the escalating violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) could lead to a further deterioration of the ...

More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a United ...

The United Nations says more than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak on January 27 in ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo will present a motion to the United Nations Human Rights Council seeking an investigation ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group was threatening another key town in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday as the United Nations warned that the risk of violence spreading regionally had ...

The surge in plane crashes worldwide, including deadly incidents in Washington DC, Philadelphia, the Philippines, Alaska, and ...

Kenya has joined other East African Community and Southern African Development Community member States in calling for cessation and ceasefire in the conflict prone eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has refused to engage in a public dispute with his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame. Kagame last ...

The UN warned that escalating violence in eastern DR Congo, fueled by Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, could destabilize the region.

The United Nations warned Friday that the worst may be yet to come if the violence engulfing the eastern Democratic Republic ...

The repatriation of 14 South African National Defence Force (SANDF) members from the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...

DRC and Rwanda together supply around half the world's coltan, the metallic ore that is vital in making phones and laptops.