See 12 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

On the streets I once walked and drove down daily, near the shopping centre where I bought my groceries, dead bodies lay ...

A single image captures the grim task facing those who needed to find space for the dead after a spasm of violence in Central ...

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

Surrounded by majestic lakes and a range of dormant and active volcanoes with its rich ... of mineral riches making the Democratic Republic of Congo potentially the richest country in the world.

The Congolese returning to Goma to rebuild their homeland said they were heartbroken over the devastated situation in the city, which left them wandering how to reconstruct their life with fragile ...

Violence escalated when the Rwandan-backed March 23 Movement rebels seized control of Goma, a key mining city in eastern ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council today agreed by consensus to launch an urgent fact-finding mission and commission of ...

The risk of further eruptions from volcano Nyiragongo led DR Congo ... populated area of the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Twenty-two people, most of them women and ...

The M23 rebels took control of a town 100 kilometres (60 miles) from the provincial capital of Bukavu despite a ceasefire.

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in Democratic Republic of Congo are seeking to advance south towards Bukavu, the capital of South ...