GENEVA - The President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Jürg Lauber (Switzerland), has announced the appointment of Arnauld Akodjenou of Benin ...

Organized by MONUSCO's Gender Section, the meetings aimed to promote more active participation of women in peace initiatives across a region scarred by decades of armed conflict. The theme chosen for ...

Eighty-five per cent of health facilities in North Kivu and South Kivu provinces in the eastern Democratic Republic of the ...

The new rebel administration has outsourced a plethora of goods and services mostly from Rwanda, Uganda and beyond ...

Over the last year, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been embattled by a new wave of conflict and atrocity crimes.

A new body comprised of Congolese, M23 and regional representatives will be formed to monitor a potential permanent ceasefire ...

- People near Kibumba, north of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, as they flee fighting between Congolese forces and M23 ...

At least 19 civilians were killed in a nighttime raid by suspected ISIS-linked militants in North Kivu, eastern Congo, local ...

The last Ebola patient in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been discharged, marking an important milestone in the ...

Excerpt: Thirty-eight M23 rebels, including two officers, have surrendered in eastern Congo as ceasefire talks mediated by ...

To Sudan, where the people of government held El Fasher in the west of the war-torn country remain trapped without food, ...