When the rebels seized Sake in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Francis ran. She had heard what happened to the women who stayed behind. She didn't yet know that the aid she would soon rely ...

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women recently examined the Republic of the Congo’s eighth periodic report, acknowledging the country’s legal advancements while raising ...

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

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

This weekend, the group entered the gold-trading center of Bukavu in eastern Congo after government soldiers fled. By Elian Peltier and Justin Makangara Elian Peltier reported from Dakar ...

It has been reported that between 165 and 167 women were sexually assaulted by male inmates before being killed in a fire set by the prisoners. The ordeal took place in Goma, eastern Democratic ...

AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa Hundreds of women were raped and burned to death after a mass jailbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, following the seizure of a major city by militants.

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According to an internal UN document seen by the BBC, between 165 and 167 women were sexually assaulted by male inmates before being killed in a fire set by the prisoners. Goma, a city of more than ...