GENEVA (Reuters) - The Democratic Republic of Congo has requested an emergency session of the U.N. Human Rights Council to ...

The U.N. health agency says that fighting last week between Congolese government forces and Rwanda-backed rebels in the major ...

Rebels have seized control of large areas of Goma, setting up checkpoints and severely restricting humanitarian access, ...

Columns of reinforcements headed out from Goma to cheering crowds from nearby camps for the displaced, as explosions rang out ...

The U.N. Human Rights Council will hold a special meeting to discuss the situation in the eastern Congo city of Goma after it ...

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

United Nations agencies called for an end to the violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as fighting ...

The UN's top humanitarian official in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Tuesday called for Goma airport to be urgently reopened, warning its continued closure is paralyzing relief ...

Goma, a city in the Democratic Republic of Congo, faces a severe humanitarian crisis after M23 rebels took control, resulting ...

The U.N. Human Rights Council will convene an urgent session to discuss the seizure of Goma by Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, highlighting severe human rights violations, including executions and sexual ...

Goma was taken after fighting earlier this week, and M23 fighters have vowed to march to the capital Kinshasa.

The United Nations says Rwanda-backed rebels captured large parts of eastern Congo’s largest city of Goma including its ...