One particularly horrific incident came to light when a mother recounted how her six daughters were systematically raped by ...

The United Nations has warned of surging child recruitment, abductions, killings and sexual violence as the rebels, known as ...

National Treasury allocated R4.9 billion to the Department of Defence (DoD) for the South African National Defence Force’s ...

Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo’s major city of Goma have targeted relatives of fleeing Congolese soldiers.

DR Congo's prime minister said Monday that "more than 7,000" people have been killed in the east of the country since January ...

The M23 movement, supported by some 4,000 Rwandan soldiers, according to U.N. experts, now controls large tracts of troubled eastern Congo. Its rapid advance has sent tens of thousands fleeing.

The defection ceremony took place in front of the provincial police headquarters, drawing the attention of the local ...

Congo says over 7,000 people have died this year as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have captured unprecedented amounts of territory in its mineral-rich eastern region. And the European Union says it ...

Violence raging in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has killed "more than 7,000 compatriots", many of them civilians, ...

Congo’s president says he is going to launch a unity government, as violence spreads across the country’s east and pressure ...

Local sources contacted by Aid to the Church in Need said the killings took place between Feb. 12 and Feb. 15 in Maiba, a ...