President Félix Tshisekedi physically missed today’s high-stakes joint South African Development Community (SADC), and East African Community (EAC) Summit, where regional leaders led by President ...

UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Friday (07 Feb) expressed profound concerns at the ongoing violent escalation in eastern ...

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

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group was threatening another key town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday, as the ...

The crisis in eastern Congo has disrupted economic activity in East Africa, and especially air travel, with the region’s ...

Rwanda said on Friday it had proof of an intended major attack by the Democratic Republic of Congo and denied it was ...

The M23, whose top brass are mostly Congolese Tutsi, began its insurgency more than three years ago after a decade of ...

The UN’s top human rights body is holding an urgent session on spiralling violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where ...

As M23 continues its destructive march, the upcoming EAC-SADC summit must consider lessons from failed peace efforts.

The UN Human Rights Council is considering whether to launch an investigation into alleged abuses committed in eastern Congo on Kinshasa's request. Rwanda alleged it was responding to an "imminent" ...