The United Nations migration agency says it is scaling back or ending projects around the world and firing staff following an ...

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 ...

The presidents of Congo and neighboring Rwanda have met in Qatar for their first direct talks since Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seized two major cities in mineral-rich eastern Congo earlier this year.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...