Hundreds of Congolese soldiers and police officers seeking refuge at the United Nations' base in Goma since the eastern city's capture in January are being transferred to Kinshasa, the International ...

For me, the 100th anniversary of Virunga National Park is the fruit of resistance. A peaceful resistance led by local ...

Six schools run by the UN Palestine ... of the Congo (DRC) is being driven by “persistent violence” according to the UN humanitarian coordination office, OCHA. Fresh clashes between armed groups near ...

Four countries share borders with the Kivu provinces: Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania. The conflict in North and South Kivu is often ... in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). She contributed ...

The emerging crisis in eastern DR Congo and especially around the city of Goma, in the province of North Kivu, has worrying implications for cholera in the region. The area around Goma has been ...

The U.S. is pushing Congo and Rwanda to sign a peace accord at the White House in about two months, accompanied by bilateral ...

The United Nations has condemned the widespread rape and sexual violence against children in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) reported in the first two months of this year amid ...

SEOUL, April 9 (UPI) --Kim Yo Jong, the influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, on Wednesday reaffirmed Pyongyang's self-proclaimed status as a nuclear state and slammed U.S. calls ...

Chancelline Karekezi stood quietly in line, her three-week-old baby cradled in her arms, inside a local stadium in Rugombo commune, northern Burundi, where thousands of newly arrived Congolese ...

Eastern DR Congo has been wracked by decades of conflict, but tensions have been heightened in recent months by the advance of the M23 armed group which the international community says is backed ...