Hundreds of women were raped and burned to death after militants raided a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

More than 100 female prisoners were raped and then burned alive during a jailbreak in the Congolese city of Goma, according ...

The M23 captured Goma, a city of nearly two million people, last week after a lightning advance in DR Congo's eastern region.

Footage from the Congo jailbreak showed prisoners fleeing as smoke billowed in the background, with heavy gunfire ringing out.

During the Goma jailbreak, several women were assaulted by male inmates, while the majority perished when the prisoners set ...

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Hundreds of wounded people have poured into overcrowded hospitals in Goma after the M23 rebels say they captured the major city in eastern Congo last week GOMA, Congo -- Hundreds of wounded people ...

Once crowded with white makeshift huts, the huge Kanyaruchinya camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Goma, in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, looked eerily empty Sunday.

An ongoing escalation has displaced around half a million more people and led to the capture last week of Congo's largest eastern city Goma, fanning fears of regional wars like those that killed ...

Since Goma was taken by Rwanda-backed M23 fighters earlier this week, some 100,000 internally displaced people have left the jam-packed hillside where they had set up several years ago.