A joint summit of leaders from eastern and southern Africa is underway in Tanzania as African governments try to find a ...

Leaders from Eastern and Southern African regional blocs gather in Tanzania on Saturday to seek a solution to the conflict in ...

Thousands of families have been displaced by violence in eastern Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels last month seized the key ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group was threatening another key town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday, as the ...

The foreign ministry says all United Nations personnel have been restricted to movement within UN compounds for safety ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council today agreed by consensus to launch an urgent fact-finding mission and commission of ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of ...

Congo's leader Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame, who have exchanged fiery words blaming each other's ...

With hostilities subsiding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)'s occupied Goma City in North Kivu province, UN humanitarians said that violence in South Kivu province is increasing and ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights urged “all those with influence” to move quickly to end the deadly ...

The worst could be yet to come in east Congo's escalating crisis, U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk said on Friday, warning ...