He was the second man to rape her at Munzenze prison. The first attack was so violent that she passed out. Her attackers came ...

Congolese authorities announced that over 170 prisoners on death row over armed robberies would be executed. A recent video ...

Local authorities and civil society leaders confirmed 2,500 prisoners escaped and there was widespread looting after M23 took ...

Residents of eastern Congo's second-largest city on Monday surveyed the aftermath of widespread looting that accompanied the ...

As Rwanda-backed rebels closed in on eastern Congo's largest city, retreating army soldiers barged into Suzanne Amisi Wilonja ...

Congo has been plagued by war for nearly three decades. Millions of people have been displaced, and rape has consistently ...

With mass killings, prison breaks, mass displacement and mystery illnesses, violence has once again become a central issue in ...

(AP Photo/Janvier Barhahiga) An empty street in Bukavu, eastern Congo, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Janvier Barhahiga) ...

Now, as Congo descends into further violence ... media videos have also showed the region's factories pillaged and prisons emptied while electricity remained on and communication lines open ...

The M23 rebels have been moving south towards Uvira, which shares a lake border with Burundi, since they seized the ...

Pascaline, 22, recalls the words of her rapist at a prison in Goma, the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in the early hours of 27 January. "I was forced to let it happen ...