As M23 rebels continue to gain ground in South Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the country's top UN humanitarian official has told UN News that increasing "complexity and ...

The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday issued a stark warning over escalating violence in eastern Democratic Republic of ...

DRC has launched a plan for a green corridor at the world's largest protected area - but local people say they haven't been ...

Nearly three thousand people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to ...

The Rwandan-backed M23 group on Friday advanced south after seizing the biggest city in mineral-rich eastern DR Congo, in ...

The UN mission in eastern Congo was initially meant to be quickly concluded at the request of Kinshasa. However, the M23 offensive in North Kivu has led to a reassessment. Will the peacekeeping ...

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We are going to move forward from Goma to Bukavu … up to Kinshasa,” he said. In Goma, Van de Perre said the rebel group is consolidating control over the city and territories of North Kivu ...

It is a major test of the court's ability to mediate major interstate conflicts within its jurisdiction, now in real time.

Beginning with the dictator Mobutu sese Seko, Kinshasa characterised the populations ... the apportionment to the DRC of parts of the North Kivu and South Kivu. This ill-treatment of these ...

Kinshasa claims that the M23 rebel group and Rwandan forces have been engaged in armed conflict in the eastern Kivu region since 2021, resulting in infrastructure destruction, thousands of ...