A professor of global health was in Kivu when the fighting began to rage. She recounts what she and her colleagues ...

At the 58th regular session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, Caritas Internationalis highlighted the widespread effects of ...

Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo’s major city of Goma have targeted relatives of fleeing Congolese soldiers ...

GOMA, Congo — Rwanda-backed rebels captured a key eastern Congo city a month ago Friday. Residents in Goma, which was once a ...

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

The United Nations says the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have abducted at least 130 sick and wounded men in two hospitals in a ...

Pastors have reported that they have been forced to shelter rebels inside their churches as well as within their surrounding communities. The rebels are well aware that hiding in these sanctuaries ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels abducted 130 men from two hospitals in Goma, east Congo, accusing them of being Congo soldiers or militia members. The ongoing conflict, linked to Rwanda's genocide and ...

KINSHASA | Xinhua | Several explosions killed at least 11 people and injured 65 others on Thursday in Bukavu in the eastern ...

They have captured Bukavu, which is the capital of South Kivu province ... The rebels have already occupied Goma, Nyabibwe ...

In a major escalation of their yearslong fighting with government forces, the rebels captured Goma and Bukavu, the region’s biggest cities, in fighting that has forced thousands of soldiers to ...