Sixteen-year-old Darkuna watched, terrified, as six gun-wielding men ransacked her home. She would become one of many ...

More than a month after rebels captured Goma, the capital of DRC’s North Kivu province, humanitarian workers dispute the UN’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

At least 130 sick and wounded men have been abducted from two hospitals in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DR Congo) eastern city of Goma by M23 rebels, the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) reported ...

A professor of global health was in Kivu when the fighting began to rage. She recounts what she and her colleagues ...

GOMA, Congo — Rwanda-backed rebels captured ... who were already displaced by the conflict had fled once again, the UN said. Despite M23’s promises to restart economic activities, commercial ...

Goma, a city of two million ... Situations like those in the DRC inspired a new UN handbook on early warning systems and early action in fragile, conflict-affected and violent contexts.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the January offensive, according to the United Nations. “It is peaceful here, unlike over there,” said Exauce Shalako, a 20-year-old man from Goma who was ...