Sixteen-year-old Darkuna watched, terrified, as six gun-wielding men ransacked her home. She would become one of many ...

More than a month after rebels captured Goma, the capital of DRC’s North Kivu province, humanitarian workers dispute the UN’s ...

The heavily armed rebels do not act alone. They are backed by neighbouring Rwanda, according to the UN and the US. Rwanda ...

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and partners in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are providing lifesaving ...

Banks are still shut, basic services such as trade are slowly restarting, and thousands displaced by the conflict are ...

The United Nations says the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have abducted at least 130 sick and wounded men in two hospitals in a ...

Escalating attacks have struck hospitals and other civilian infrastructure in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo during the ...

A professor of global health was in Kivu when the fighting began to rage. She recounts what she and her colleagues ...

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels abducted over 130 patients from hospitals in Goma, eastern Congo, amid rising tensions. Suspected to be connected with Congo's military, the captives are held in secret ...

According to the UN, last week the M23 took 116 people from Goma's CBCA Ndosho hospital and 15 others from the Heal Africa ...