Fighters with the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), which has ties to IS, killed civilians in the area of Irumu in the east of the country bordering Uganda. The attack comes as eastern Congo may see an ...

Marijuana is illegal in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, ... In one of the poorest countries in the world, a population of around 600,000 indigenous forest people, widely known as Pygmies, ...

Pygmy representatives have asked the United Nations to set up a court to try government and rebel fighters from the Democratic Republic of Congo for acts of cannibalism against their people. Sinafasi ...

Children are seen in a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Ituri province, northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, March 17, 2022. Alain Uaykani/Xinhua/Getty ...

The remains of a Congolese customs worker who was killed for resisting a bribe and beatified by the Vatican have been ...

Learn about sources of continued violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and how the United Nations, ... Between 900 people, by UN estimates, and 2,000 people, ...

3 People attack the Rwanda Embassy in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Jan. 28, 2025, in protest over the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels' advances into the eastern capital Goma.

Almost 3,000 people have been killed in fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN has said. Vivian van de Perre, a senior UN official based in the city of Goma, said the ...

The crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is getting worse. In January, even before the Rwanda-backed M23 seized Goma and Bukavu, and before the collapse of much of the humanitarian aid ...