The U.N. Human Rights Council will hold a special meeting to discuss the situation in the eastern Congo city of Goma after it ...

Steward Muhindo is an activist with LUCHA (Lutte pour le changement), a non-violent, non-partisan civic movement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He spoke to CIVICUS about the conflict ...

We, the undersigned 75 Congolese, regional, and international human rights organizations, write to appeal to you to urgently work to establish, in the context of a special session of the UN Human ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The Democratic Republic of Congo has requested an emergency session of the U.N. Human Rights Council to ...

The ceasefire announcement by the M23 rebels came shortly after the UN health agency said at least 900 people were killed in ...

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This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Patrick Sison, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide made or ...

In 2012, when M23 rebels appeared poised to seize control of a major city in eastern Congo, western countries suspended aid ...

France's foreign minister was due in Rwanda on Thursday after talks in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of efforts to ...

The security situation in the city of Goma is deteriorating, and journalists can no longer report, the media has been forced ...

More than a hundred people have been killed and over a thousand wounded in the city of Goma in the east of the Democratic ...

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