DRC gained independence in 1960 and since then the UN has played a crucial role in the country, notably through the deployment of three peacekeeping missions. The UN intervened for the first time in ...

GOMA: Goma, which fell to M23 fighters and the Rwandan military last week, has become a symbol of the conflict that has ...

Bodies in the streets, no clean water and an intensifying rainy season trigger escalating health risks in Goma, the ...

Is there a role for international law in what's happening in North Kivu, and more generally in international peace, at a time when Rwanda seems to have drawn the conclusion of a global context marked ...

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

With fears of a regional conflagration spiraling, the Kenyan presidency announced on Monday that Congolese President Felix ...

Apart from that, the province’s capital city of Goma has problems with medicine supplies, access to drinking water and electricity ...

We, the undersigned 75 Congolese, regional, and international human rights organizations, write to appeal to you to urgently work to establish, in the context of a special session of the UN Human ...

Rwandan-backed armed group M23 announced a humanitarian “ceasefire” from Tuesday in DR Congo’s explosive east, days before a ...

A rebel group that claimed to have captured the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last week has called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, after fighting with the Congolese ...

The Rwanda-backed rebels who seized eastern Congo’s key city of Goma have announced a unilateral ceasefire in the region for humanitarian reasons.

Outside the morgue at Goma’s North Kivu Provincial Hospital on Monday, Red Cross workers piled bodies into a large truck.