Goma: Congo has been witnessing a massive political crisis with Rwanda-backed rebels capturing the city of Goma and another town near the provincial capital of Bukavu. Amid the ongoing violence, it ...

Meanwhile, Congo is preparing a mass burial as the death toll due to the unrest nears 3,000. As per an internal UN document seen by BBC, around 165 to 167 women were assaulted by male inmates ...

Today's rundown includes US deporting illegal Indian migrants in chained condition, over 100 women raped in Congo while death toll neared 3000 amid fighting, Trump signing an executive order to ...

According to an internal UN document seen by the BBC, between 165 and 167 women were sexually assaulted by male inmates before being killed in a fire set by the prisoners. Goma, a city of more than ...

Hundreds of female prisoners were raped and burned alive during a jailbreak in the Congolese city of Goma. On January 27, hundreds of prisoners broke out of Munzenze prison, after the M23 rebel group ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Red Cross personnel load bodies of victims of the fighting between Congolese government forces and M23 ...

The United Nations has organized four world conferences on women. These took place in Mexico City in 1975, Copenhagen in 1980, Nairobi in 1985 and Beijing in 1995. The last was followed by a series of ...

M23 rebels escort government soldiers and police who surrendered to an undisclosed location in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. Image- AP More than 150 women held in a ...

People gather for a funeral in the city of Goma, Congo.

Nearly 3,000 people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the United Nations, after it was captured by rebels following days of fierce ...