When the Banyene family were sent back to their home in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, all that had survived the fighting was a crumbling wall and sagging metal roof. But at the end of January Goma,

In February 2025, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution agreeing to establish a fact-finding mission on the serious human rights violations and

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and the M23 rebel group it supports has raised concerns that the principle may now be endangered.

Bukavu rises from chaos, but scars remain. Looters and rebels left devastation, yet merchants return, clinging to hope. As M23 advances, fear grips the region—will peace hold, or is worse to come?

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MONUSCO, the U.N. peacekeeping force in the DRC, said the reported killings were under investigation but remained unverified.

Conditions continue to worsen dramatically in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where 25.5 million people face the danger of hunger, a Baptist leader there said.

As armed attacks intensify in North Kivu, villagers plead for prayers after discovering dozens of victims inside a Protestant church — another grim chapter in the region’s deepening crisis.

U.K. authorities are punishing Rwanda over its support of the rebels who now control two major cities in eastern Congo.

A statement issued by the Education Ministry indicated that 1,483 schools have been closed in North Kivu province while 1,111 are closed in South Kivu province, affecting 1.1 million children.

The Red Cross Society of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC Red Cross), the International Committee ... having been forced from their homes elsewhere in North and South Kivu, sometimes repeatedly," said Grégoire Mateso Mbuta, president of the ...