Millions of migrants and hundreds of staff impacted by US and other aid cuts, UN agency says
The United Nations migration agency says it is scaling back or ending projects around the world and firing staff following an ...
Accounts of child survivors shed light on surge of rape and sexual violence in conflict-torn DRC
Sixteen-year-old Darkuna watched, terrified, as six gun-wielding men ransacked her home. She would become one of many ...
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Eastern DRC: The impossible death toll of the battle for Goma
More than a month after rebels captured Goma, the capital of DRC’s North Kivu province, humanitarian workers dispute the UN’s ...
UN Establishes Mechanism To Investigate Atrocities In DR Congo
In February 2025, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution agreeing to establish a fact-finding mission on the serious human rights violations and ...
Rebels in eastern Congo abducted 130 hospital patients, UN says
The United Nations says the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have abducted at least 130 sick and wounded men in two hospitals in a major city in eastern Congo ...
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What's the fighting in DR Congo all about?
When the rebels took over Goma, UN aid agencies warned of a major humanitarian crisis with shortages of food and water, hospitals overwhelmed by casualties and bodies lying on the streets.
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DR Congo: Clean water ‘a lifeline’ for around 364,000 children a day in Goma
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and partners in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are providing lifesaving clean water supplies to 700,000 people a day – around 364,000 of them ...
Children face lethal violence, rape in east Congo war
As Rwanda-backed rebels closed in on eastern Congo's largest city, retreating army soldiers barged into Suzanne Amisi Wilonja ...
Why Congo’s Vast Army Is Struggling to Fight a Far Smaller Militia
The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.