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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

The European Union announced on Monday that it has imposed targeted sanctions on nine leaders of the M23 rebel movement and ...

The economy of the capital of the North Kivu province, has ground to a halt after being seized by the rebel movement and its ...

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 ...