More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire ...

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

The U.N. health agency says that fighting last week between Congolese government forces and Rwanda-backed rebels in the major ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has requested an emergency session of the U.N. Human Rights Council to discuss the situation ...

The U.N.’s top human rights body has condemned Rwanda’s support of rebel fighters across the border in eastern Congo and ...

UNITED NATIONS — A UN official in occupied Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, said on Wednesday that the city is in a state ...

A senior U.N. official in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Wednesday that nearly 3,000 people have been killed in a ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights urged “all those with influence” to move quickly to end the deadly ...

The M23, whose top brass are mostly Congolese Tutsi, began its insurgency more than three years ago after a decade of dormancy, seizing large parts of North Kivu province before finally grabbing Goma, ...

Worse violence "may be yet to come" in the conflict-hit Democratic Republic of Congo, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ...

The UN on Tuesday said the humanitarian situation in the besieged DR Congo city of Goma was "extremely worrying" amid mass ...

According to a UN report, over a third of the population of North Kivu province where Goma is located are currently displaced, and the capture of Goma will likely exacerbate the situation.