The President of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Jürg Lauber, on Monday announced the appointment of a three-member Commission of Inquiry into the human rights situation in the provinces of S ...

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

Sophia Randolph, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Medical Officer, Kivu Bioscience “We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Randolph to Kivu as Chief ...

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

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 ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 5 October 2007 Over the past week, ...

Speaking to journalists at the Serena Hotel in Goma, North Kivu Province, on Thursday evening, M23–AFC leaders Bertrand Bisimwa and Corneille Nangaa accused the Congolese army of repeatedly attacking ...

More than 200 health centers in eastern Congo are running out of essential medicine due to ongoing fighting and a lack of humanitarian aid.

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

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

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