The head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo met with leaders of the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 on Friday in Goma, ...

Human rights group Amnesty International accused the M23 rebels in eastern Congo of killing, torturing and forcibly disappearing civilian detainees in two rebel-controlled cities ...

The M23 rebel movement has rejected a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report accusing it of executing at least 21 civilians in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma in February, branding the claims as fabricated ...

The operation took place at Makala Central Prison in the capital Kinshasa on Monday afternoon ... most of whom are awaiting trial, Amnesty International said in its latest country report.

Amnesty International has issued a damning report ... have threatened to advance all the way to the capital, Kinshasa, 1,600 kilometers away.

Movement/Congo River Alliance (M23/AFC) rebels have vehemently rejected fresh allegations of grave human rights violations ...

Nationals from seven African countries are barred from entering the United States, under a policy based on the proportion of ...

But victims of the Kisangani war, between Uganda and Rwanda on Congolese soil 25 years ago, are yet to be compensated.  The ...

Kinshasa, Congo — An attempted jailbreak ... most of whom are awaiting trial, Amnesty International said in its latest country report. The facility has recorded previous jailbreaks, including ...

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 ...

KINSHASA, Congo — An attempted jailbreak ... most of whom are awaiting trial, Amnesty International said in its latest country report. The facility has recorded previous jailbreaks, including ...

according to an Amnesty International report from last year. Although other estimates put the number of inmates even higher. Conditions are dire. Fred Bauma, the executive director of Kinshasa ...