KATHMANDU, Nepal — Tens of thousands of Hindu devotees gathered at a revered temple in Nepal's capital on Wednesday to celebrate one of the country's biggest religious festivals. In the Bankali ...

Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), its prime minister told a high-level meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday.

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Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi will launch a unity government, his spokesperson said on Saturday, as he faces domestic pressure over his handling of an offensive by Rwanda-backed M23 rebels ...

However, the government of Rwanda rejects all accusations of this. The DRC authorities are outraged at Rwanda’s contempt for them, decrying it as an open provocation. At the United Nations on January ...

Rwanda's foreign ministry said the sanctions would not resolve the conflict in the DR Congo, terming them "unjustified and unfounded". They come as the M23 appears to be continuing its advance ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

“Everybody is really worried,” said Sara Rosenberg, who volunteered at the two-decade-old Lwiro Primates Rehabilitation Centre (CRPL) in Lwiro village in DRC’s South Kivu province, where ...

An M23 rebel guards the SAMIDRC base in Goma. The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) should withdraw from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) because it can no longer influence the ...

Kabarebe, a former Rwandan general, is a Rwandan government liaison to M23 who orchestrates RDF support for the armed group and manages its generation of revenue from the DRC's mineral resources ...