Worse violence "may be yet to come" in the conflict-hit Democratic Republic of Congo, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said on Friday. An offensive by the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Prominent human rights group Amnesty International accused Congo's army and a rebel group of bombing densely populated areas in attacks that “likely constitute war crimes.” Both ...

Extremist rebels in eastern Congo's Ituri province killed at least 18 people in several villages, according to a human rights group. Fighters with the Allied Democratic Forces attacked people in the ...

Militia fighters killed at least 22 civilians and injured many more in an attack in late November 2025 on a village in ...

The Rwandan forces and M23 armed group that captured the city of Uvira in South Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on December 10, 2025, have put civilians at grave risk of abuse.

Volker Türk, the U.N. human rights chief, said his office "confirmed cases of summary execution of children by M23... We are also aware that children were in possession of weapons." The United Nations ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels appeared to be heading toward a third major city in eastern Congo, residents said Tuesday, as international pressure rose over the M23's expansion in a ...

Authorities and three industrial companies in the Republic of the Congo are failing to protect human rights, according to a report published by Amnesty International on Tuesday. The organization ...

DAKAR, Senegal — Rwanda-backed rebels killed at least 140 people in farming communities in eastern Congo in July, a human rights group said in a report Wednesday, describing the killings as “summary ...

(Associated Press) — A leading Congolese human rights activist killed this week had suffered a pattern of intimidation because of his work, a senior U.N. official said Thursday, as a rights group ...

An Aug. 17, 2012 file photo shows a Congolese man digging for cassiterite, the primary ore of tin, at a mine in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. (Credit: Marc Hofer/AP.) Listen YAOUNDÉ, ...

The Republic of Congo soldiers. The Republic of Congo said on Thursday a Human Rights Watch report accusing Congolese soldiers of killing 18 people while serving as United Nations and African Union ...