The U.N. health agency says that fighting last week between Congolese government forces and Rwanda-backed rebels in the major ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The Democratic Republic of Congo has requested an emergency session of the U.N. Human Rights Council to ...

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, ...

Rebels have seized control of large areas of Goma, setting up checkpoints and severely restricting humanitarian access, ...

The Rwanda-backed group known as M23 is believed to have been responsible for the incident following its takeover of the city ...

United Nations agencies called for an end to the violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as fighting ...

Bodies in the streets, no clean water and an intensifying rainy season trigger escalating health risks in Goma, the ...

Fighting across the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and "is still very much ongoing ... it's not over ...

The U.N. Human Rights Council will hold a special meeting to discuss the situation in the eastern Congo city of Goma after it ...

The United Nations Security Council, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and senior U.N. officials are calling for the M23 to ...

Goma, a city in the Democratic Republic of Congo, faces a severe humanitarian crisis after M23 rebels took control, resulting ...

Goma was taken after fighting earlier this week, and M23 fighters have vowed to march to the capital Kinshasa.