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

Clashes last week in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, which saw the M23 armed group and Rwandan forces seize control, have ...

A senior U.N. official in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Wednesday that nearly 3,000 people have been killed in a ...

The United Nations meanwhile said the battle for the key city of Goma, which the M23 and Rwandan troops seized last week, had ...

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, is looking for information about war crimes in eastern DRC. Meanwhile, M23 rebels launched a renewed offensive toward Bukavu in South ...

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

According to the United Nations, hundreds of women were raped and then burned alive during a jailbreak in Goma, DR Congo.

DRC gained independence in 1960 and since then the UN has played a crucial role in the country, notably through the deployment of three peacekeeping missions. The UN intervened for the first time in ...

The UN mission in eastern Congo was initially meant to be quickly concluded at the request of Kinshasa. However, the M23 offensive in North Kivu has led to a reassessment. Will the peacekeeping ...

Unidentified people in civilian clothes enter MONUSCO base in Goma, Eastern DRC and hand over weapons to the Uruguayan UN ...

Thirteen soldiers serving with peacekeeping forces -- from South Africa, Malawi and Uruguay -- have been killed in recent ...