Operational constraints and regional tensions prevent the UN peacekeeping mission from responding effectively to escalating violence in the DRC.

Hundreds of women are hard at work at the back of a hall, tucked away off a side street lined with banana trees in Kananga, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Kasai-Central Province. Fidèle, 36 ...

Sabine was 15 years old when she was raped by a stranger on the outskirts of a displacement camp in eastern DR Congo, where UNICEF said sexual violence against children has reached "alarming levels".

In a new report, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns of the lack of support available for survivors of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Given the ...

A special investigative mission to Yumbi territory in Mai-Ndombe province, in the west of the Democratic Republic of Congo, found that horrific intercommunal attacks carried out between 16 and 18 ...

A year on from the invasion of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwandan-backed M23 rebels, the Rt Revd Martin ...

Congolese refugees displaced by clashes in Democratic Republic of Congo arrived at a refugee camp in Burundi on February 17 - Copyright Ritzau Scanpix/AFP Emil ...

Sexual violence against children is endemic, systemic, and worsening across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF said on Tuesday. Nationwide data ...

Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) soldiers get into a vehicle in Bukavu on February 14, 2025.[AFP] Dozens of mpox patients being treated in hospital isolation units in Goma ...

NEW YORK/GENEVA – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Virginia Gamba, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in ...

Renewed fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has triggered a sharp and urgent escalation in displacement. Thousands are fleeing toward Goma, already overwhelmed with ...