The UN's top human rights body on Friday launched an investigation into alleged abuses during the escalating crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) and adopted a resolution ...

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

The Rwanda-backed M23 has seized vast swathes of eastern DRC and is pressing southwards into South Kivu province, which shares a border with Burundi.

On Thursday, during his State of the Nation Address (SONA) speech, President Ramaphosa said South Africa 'won't be bullied' ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group was threatening another key town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Friday ...

Congo's resolution calls for establishment of independent fact-finding mission to investigate widespread human rights abuses ...

Nearly 3,000 people were killed in Goma last week, according to early estimates provided by the UN peacekeeping operation in ...

The United Nations has called for efforts to prevent the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from ...

The UN Human Rights Council launched an investigation Friday into alleged violations and abuses committed in the deadly ...

Rwanda claims to have evidence of an intended attack by the Democratic Republic of Congo, denying any role in the unrest ...

The worst could be yet to come in east Congo's escalating crisis, U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk said on Friday, warning that abuses including rape and sexual slavery may increase.

Rwanda said on Friday it had proof of an intended major attack by the Democratic Republic of Congo and denied it was ...