Congo’s president says he is going to launch a unity government, as violence spreads across the country’s east and pressure ...

The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Friday calling for an immediate and unconditional ...

M23 fighters on Friday advanced further on several fronts in DR Congo's volatile east as international pressure mounted on ...

Rebels from the M23, backed by the Rwandan army, continue to advance in South Kivu drawing closer to the Burundian border, where troops sent by President Évariste Ndayishimiye have gradually retreated ...

Top United Nations officials in Africa have warned an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council that the offensive of ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple ...

Rwanda denies the charges, and says its security is threatened by armed groups in the region, notably the Democratic Forces ...

The capture of Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province, would represent an unprecedented expansion of territory under the ...

The DRC government has accused Rwanda of backing the M23, a charge that Kigali denies, while countering with allegations that Kinshasa is working with the FDLR, a Hutu militia linked to the 1994 ...

In his speech, the UN rights chief said that since Jan. 26 ... tactic used to escape being accountable for the atrocities Kinshasa and its allied armed groups are inflicting on their own citizens.

Congo, the United States and UN experts accuse neighboring Rwanda ... including the national capital Kinshasa. Kinshasa lies around 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) away from Goma, on the vast country ...