The Africa Business Leadership and Investment Summit (ABLIS) 2025 has been relocated to Accra, Ghana, due to escalating security concerns in East Africa. The event, now scheduled for 21-25 April 2025, ...

Worse violence "may be yet to come" in the conflict-hit Democratic Republic of Congo, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ...

The UN's top human rights body on Friday launched an investigation into alleged abuses during the escalating crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) and adopted a resolution ...

A laboratory holding Ebola and other dangerous pathogens in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma -- which has been seized by the M23 armed group -- is safe, WHO said Friday.The Rwanda-backed M23 and ...

A South African defence expert, Helmoed Heitman, says the Southern African Development Community mission in DR Congo (SAMIDRC) is a complete failure and the bloc should negotiate its withdrawal.

The U.N.’s top human rights body has condemned Rwanda’s support of rebel fighters across the border in eastern Congo and ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 has seized vast swathes of eastern DRC and is pressing southwards into South Kivu province, which shares a border with Burundi.

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group was threatening another key town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Friday ...

Congo's resolution calls for establishment of independent fact-finding mission to investigate widespread human rights abuses ...

GENEVA - The worst could be yet to come in east Congo's escalating crisis, U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk said on Friday, warning that abuses including rape and sexual slavery may increase. Read ...

Nearly 3,000 people were killed in Goma last week, according to early estimates provided by the UN peacekeeping operation in ...