Sexual violence has reached devastating levels in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with nearly 40,000 women treated by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in 2024 alone.The M23/Alliance ...

Militants stormed a Catholic church in Komanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, in a brutal attack earlier this week that has ...

COMMENT: Global education – particularly women and girls – is one of the areas that will be left to wither away at a huge ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

The coup About 1 a.m. on May 19, 2024, "a large bus with armed men" pulled up to a hotel in southwest Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, where Christian Malanga was staying, court documents say.

Demonstrators carry a poster honoring the Democratic Republic of Congo armed forces during a protest in Goma, June 15, 2022. Several thousand people demonstrated to denounce "Rwandan aggression." ...