The UN condemned on Friday the widespread rape of children in conflict-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where thousands were reportedly subjected to sexual violence in the first two months of 2025.
At least 35 people were killed when pro-government militia attacked a village in the restive eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local and security sources said on Friday.
At least 23 people were killed and about 20 taken hostage this week in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by a group linked to Islamic State, local sources told AFP Friday.
Violence raging in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has killed 鈥榤ore than 7,000 compatriots鈥�, many of them civilians, since last month, the Congolese premier said Monday.
Around 42,000 people have fled the conflict raging in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and crossed into Burundi in the past two weeks, the United Nations said Friday....
The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has committed 鈥榮ummary executions鈥� of children in Bukavu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said Tuesday.
The UK government on Sunday warned that a growing offensive by Rwandan-backed fighters in the Democratic Republic of Congo risked sparking 鈥榓 wider regional conflict鈥�.
UN chief Antonio Guterres on Saturday demanded that the Democratic Republic of Congo鈥檚 鈥榯erritorial integrity鈥� be respected and a regional war avoided, at an African summit the day after Rwandan-backed fighters seized a second DRC provincial capital.
The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group were threatening another key town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday as the United Nations warned the risk of violence spreading regionally had 鈥榥ever been higher鈥�.
Rwandan-backed M23 said Thursday it wanted to 鈥榣iberate all of the Congo鈥� in its first public meeting since seizing the eastern city of Goma after deadly clashes, as its fighters advanced towards another regional capital.
Hundreds of Congolese nationals protested on Tuesday at the EU offices in South Africa to demand sanctions against Rwanda over its support for rebels in the turbulent eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
At least 700 people have been killed since Sunday in intense fighting in Goma, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo鈥檚 North Kivu province, a UN spokesman said on Friday.
The UN on Friday voiced alarm at rampant violence in eastern DR Congo, as the M23 armed group moves pushes deeper into the country, warning of summary executions and widespread rapes.
Gunshots rang out on Tuesday through parts of the besieged DR Congo city of Goma, where Congolese soldiers have clashed with militia fighters backed by Rwandan troops, while furious protesters attacked embassies in the capital Kinshasa.
Bangladeshi peacekeepers deployed in Democratic Republic of Congo are safe amid the ongoing conflict there, the Inter-Services Public Relations said on Monday....
Nine South African peacekeepers have been killed in clashes with M23 forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including two from UN peacekeeping force MONUSCO, the defence ministry said on Saturday....
More than 4,00,000 people have already been displaced this year due to intensifying violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said Friday.
Rescuers have recovered some 20 bodies after a boat carrying people and merchandise capsized Thursday on Lake Kivu in eastern DR Congo, security and harbour sources said.
Three Americans were among 37 people sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday over what the army says was a coup attempt.
The WHO said on Friday it had for the first time prequalified an mpox vaccine 鈥� a move expected to speed up access to the jabs to fight an epidemic raging in Africa.
An attempted jail break at the Democratic Republic of Congo鈥檚 largest and chronically overcrowded prison this week has left at least 129 people dead, the interior minister...
UN experts on Thursday sounded the alarm over increasing human trafficking for sexual exploitation, stemming from conflict and displacement in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
A new deadlier strain of mpox that transmits more easily between people is killing children and causing miscarriages in the Democratic Republic of Congo and may have already spread to neighbouring countries, researchers have warned.
The United Nations mission in DR Congo on Tuesday closed its main office in 聽conflict-riddled South Kivu province, according to an AFP journalist, as it continues to withdraw its troops from the east of the country.