The United Nations humanitarian chief, Tom Fletcher, visited displaced families in Shasha village in Congo’s North Kivu province on Tuesday. The visit follows the M23 rebel group’s seizure of Goma, ...

M23 is one of about 100 armed groups that have been vying for a foothold in mineral-rich eastern Congo near the border with Rwanda, in a conflict that has created one of the world’s most significant ...

UN relief chief Tom Fletcher continued his visit Wednesday to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), touring conflict-hit areas in eastern provinces.

GENEVA (11 July 2025) – UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, Siobhán Mullally, will conduct an official visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 15 ...

For months, the capital of Tanganyika, a province bordering South Kivu, feared the arrival of M23 rebels and their Rwandan ...

GENEVA - UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, Siobhán Mullally, will conduct an official visit to the ...

Learn about sources of continued violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and how the United Nations, African Union, and neighboring countries are struggling to curtail it.

The decades-long conflict in eastern Congo escalated in January, when the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels advanced and seized the strategic city of Goma in North Kivu province, followed by Bukavu in ...

The United Nations' humanitarian chief is urging more global support for displaced people in eastern Congo.

The United Nations’ humanitarian chief is urging more global support for displaced people in eastern Congo. On Thursday, he visited refugee camps in North and South Kivu provinces. He described ...

Tom Fletcher, the United Nations’ undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, visits North Kivu’s town of Buhumba, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Thursday.