Up to 167 women have been raped and killed after prisoners escaped jail in the DRC, according to a UN document seen by the BBC.

Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera has ordered preparations for the withdrawal of Malawian troops from eastern DRC. Rwandan-backed M23 rebels seized the town of Nyabibwe in South Kivu, despite ...

The United Nations has 14,000 of its blue helmet soldiers in the Kivu region, and this past December, 14 blue helmets were killed. The countries that make up the Southern African Development Community ...

A senior U.N. official in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Wednesday that nearly 3,000 people have been killed in a fighting between M23 militants and the national army over control of a key ...

The United Nations meanwhile said the battle for the key city of Goma, which the M23 and Rwandan troops seized last week, had ...

Almost 3,000 people have been killed in fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN has said.

M23 rebels, reportedly backed by Rwanda, have taken control of Nyabibwe, a significant mining town in the eastern Democratic ...

President Paul Kagame on Wednesday held discussions with António Costa, the President of the European Council, on the escalating security situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and ...

The capture of Goma, the main city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, last week by the M23 rebel group follows a ...

The Congolese diaspora say they do not want M23 rebels -- who are allegedly funded by the Rwandan government -- in their home ...

Ombeni ran out the office and into the street, where crowds tried to dodge bullets and vehicles speeding through the city, ...

M23 announced a humanitarian "ceasefire", days before a planned crisis meeting between Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi ...