More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo will present a motion to the United Nations Human Rights Council seeking an investigation ...

The U.N. health agency says that fighting last week between Congolese government forces and Rwanda-backed rebels in the major ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has requested an emergency session of the U.N. Human Rights Council to discuss the situation ...

UNITED NATIONS — A UN official in occupied Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, said on Wednesday that the city is in a state ...

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

The U.N.’s top human rights body has condemned Rwanda’s support of rebel fighters across the border in eastern Congo and ...

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

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights urged “all those with influence” to move quickly to end the deadly ...

Fighting across the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and "is still very much ongoing ... it's not over ...

The Congolese M23 group has accused the UN peacekeepers of facilitating the release of armed FARDC soldiers and FDLR militia in their custody with the intention of killing civilians in Goma city, ...

The UN on Tuesday said the humanitarian situation in the besieged DR Congo city of Goma was "extremely worrying" amid mass ...