On July 31, 2025, International African Women's Day, the BiEster Foundation, in collaboration with MONUSCO's gender section, organized a capacity-building workshop for about thirty women from various ...

Sexual violence has reached devastating levels in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), with nearly 40,000 ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Congo and Rwanda-backed rebels have signed a declaration of principles for a permanent ceasefire in ...

GOMA, Congo — Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo's largest city said Thursday they want to take their fight to the far-off capital, Kinshasa, while Congo’s president called for a ...

Unlike in 2012, when the rebels first captured Goma but held it for only a short time, analysts say the M23 is now eyeing political power and eager to show it can govern. One of those at the rally ...

Fr Francesco Tedeschi, the man campaigning for Kositi to become a Catholic saint, told the BBC his "mafia-style" murder was ...

Insecurity has been replaced by mistrust and paranoia, it’s hard to know who poses danger. But, residents say they are ...

Ceasefire agreement signed in Qatar is in name only as Kigali-backed M23 and militia allied to Kinshasa clash in eastern ...

Fighting with M23 rebels in eastern Congo has left at least 13 peacekeepers and foreign soldiers dead. M23 has made significant territorial gains in recent weeks, encircling the eastern city of Goma.

A prison in eastern Congo's town of Goma is the worst in Africa, with 850 prisoners crammed into a jail built for 150 making conditions "inhumane", a top United Nations human rights ...