The UN condemned on Friday the widespread rape of children in conflict-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where thousands were reportedly subjected to sexual violence in the first two months ...

UN condemns widespread child rape in conflict-torn eastern DR Congo, with thousands of cases reported in early 2025.

Since gaining independence from Belgium in 1960, the Democratic Republic of Congo has seen recurrent armed conflict, ...

Belgian forces conquered Rwanda, a former German colony, in 1916 during the first world war. They got help from nearby ...

Rwanda is commemorating the 1994 genocide, in which 800,000 people, most of them from the Tutsi ethnic group, were massacred ...

The Treaty of Versailles, which brought an end to the world war, officially transferred Rwanda and ... The current diplomatic ...

At least 14 bodies were found in the Walikale area of North Kivu in the DRC following the withdrawal of the M23 rebel group.

The situation in eastern DRC continues to deteriorate, with M23 rebels gaining ground and diplomatic efforts failing to ...

The M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have withdrawn from Walikale, a key town in the country, ahead ...

with whom the DRC has sought a minerals-for-security partnership. It comes as war rages in the country’s resource-rich eastern region between government forces and a Rwanda-backed rebel group.