The escalating violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between M23 rebels and government forces is of grave concern.The fighting has sparked massive displacement towards several ...

The film draws on the UN Mapping Report, which records the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the Congo between March 1993 and June 2003. The report names the perpetrators, which ...

Mukwege hoped it was an outlier, he says, “but it turns out, as we now know, that it was just the first of many horrific incidents of how rape was being used as a weapon in Congo’s war.” ...

In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, over eight million people have been forced to flee their homes due to the ongoing war waged in the region by the M23 rebel group. Some young people from ...

Last week Governor General Pierre Ryckmans of the Belgian Congo announced that “unoccupied Belgium” was at war with Italy. Casus belli: Italy had committed hostile acts against Belgium ...

According to a report by the Centre for Preventive Action published on the Global Conflict Tracker, the first Congo War (1996–1997) was followed by the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. This war saw Hutu ...