The offer sounded almost unreal. The UN was fishing around for someone with a knack for building prisons – preferably a woman ...

Child recruitment and release were high on the agenda earlier this week when a senior United Nations (UN) staffer addressed ...

War and looting leave most eastern Congo health facilities without medicines amid deepening humanitarian crisis.

Planned for this week, the sixth round of peace talks between the Congolese government and M23 rebels has been pushed to next week. The negotiations, set to take place in Qatar, aim to finalize a ...

Nearly nine-out-of-10 clinics and hospitals in war-ravaged Eastern Congo are running low on medicines, and many are seeing an ...

UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- UN peacekeepers and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) worked together to free 410 children held by armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), ...

A military court handed a life sentence on Monday to militia commander Ntabo Ntaberi Sheka for war crimes including murder, sexual slavery and child soldier recruitment in Democratic Republic of Congo ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Over 200 health facilities in eastern Congo are experiencing shortages of medicines as a result of ...

And also at the clinic last week: Sophie, The Duchess of Edinburgh, Prince Edward’s wife. The only reason that Deborah’s ...

Comedians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are mining their country’s chronic instability for laughs, entertaining ...