The Rwanda-backed M23 fighters claim to have taken control of Kavumu airport serving Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

The U.N. children’s fund on Thursday accused armed men, likely on both sides of the conflict in eastern Congo, of raping scores of children over the past weeks as rebels expand their footprint and ...

Unprecedented sexual violence against children has been reported in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo as the ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is alarmed by the rapidly worsening humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as the continued lack of access to displaced people hampers the ...

UN agency says children as young as 12 are also being enlisted or coerced to join the fighting by armed groups.

Soundtrack to a Coup d’État is a phenomenal film—brilliantly crafted. Johan Grimonprez unearths truths about the overthrow of ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, have since been advancing around one of Africa's great lakes, Lake Kivu, towards the second-biggest city ...

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday condemned the rape of numerous children by armed groups, likely from ...

The past three years have been turbulent for the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a region that has experienced ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s early actions in office have in many cases expanded upon proposals from Project 2025's ...