The US’ reported withdrawal from the UNHRC and some other vital UN agencies could be seen as a fillip to anti-democratic and ...

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

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

More than 100 female prisoners were raped and then burned alive during a jailbreak in the Congolese city of Goma, according to the UN. Hundreds of prisoners broke out of Munzenze prison last Monday, ...

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, U.N. officials report hundreds of women were raped and burned to death as the M23 ...

Director Johan Grimonprez discusses Soundtrack to a Coup d'État, his powerful exploration of Congo's decolonization struggle, in conversation with Peter Mertens, Belgian political leader and author of ...

A rebel group that claimed to have captured the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last week has called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, after fighting with the Congolese ...

The insurgents want to show they can restore order and have urged civilians to return to normal life, but 23-year-old ...

East African leaders are planning a presidential summit to try to resolve the crisis. Kenyan President Ruto announced that ...

It was the height of the Cold War ... from Congo was completely hushed up and vice versa. The Belgian Congo was kept as a bubble and the people were kept ignorant, both in Belgium and in Congo,” he ...

Like all the Sudanese women who the BBC spoke to about their ... her home in Omdurman had been raided during Sudan's violent civil war, which erupted in 2023. The family went to Egypt first ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Prominent human rights group Amnesty International accused Congo's army and a rebel group of bombing densely populated areas in attacks that “likely constitute war ...