A peace agreement brokered by the White House to stem the bloodshed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was signed in Washington D.C. on Friday by officials of the two African nations.

As long as the DRC continues to be a stamping ground for militias, including M23, and other neighboring countries, instability will create the perfect conditions for atrocity crimes to be perpetrated.

Florence Wanza Munyao, a Kenya long-distance truck driver who was kidnapped in the Democratic Republic of Congo, (DRC) has narrated her distressing ordeal at the hands of the Congolese militia ...

Floods in the Democratic Republic of Congo killed dozens, a disaster that comes with Kinshasa struggling to beat back a rebel militia. In the capital, a vast river overflowed its banks, further ...

For months, the capital of Tanganyika, a province bordering South Kivu, feared the arrival of M23 rebels and their Rwandan ...

Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), its prime minister told a high-level meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday.

Both sides in the fighting between the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) army and M23 rebels have likely broken the rules of war by firing explosives into civilian-packed areas, Amnesty ...

Army-backed militias, collectively known as the 'Wazalendo,' committed widespread human rights abuses against civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to Human Rights Watch ( ...

UNICEF is on the ground in the Democratic Republic of the Congo delivering urgently needed humanitarian assistance.

The past three years have been turbulent for the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a region that has experienced prolonged conflict for many years. The recent advancement of M23, a Rwanda ...

An attack by a militia from the Lendu ethnic group has killed 51 people in northeastern DR Congo, local and humanitarian sources told AFP on Tuesday.