This year, as Guyanese celebrate IWD, we pause to recognise and denounce the horrific conditions that women and girls and other citizens continue to ...

UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders called on Wednesday for support for human rights defenders ...

Congo, the United Nations and Western powers say neighbouring Rwanda is backing Nangaa's M23 rebel group - accusations Rwanda denies. The rebel advance has stirred fears of a regional war that ...

The conflict currently plaguing eastern DR Congo began in the 1990s ... a Ugandan armed group founded in 1995), as well as "other armed groups", he noted. Khan added: "What we have to do is ...

BUKAVU, Congo — At least 11 people were killed and scores injured Thursday when explosions in the eastern Congo city of Bukavu struck a rally held by leaders of the M23 rebel group, which took ...

He was driving a 1995 Dodge 2500 pickup on County Road 3102 outside Bartlesville around 11:30 p.m. Feb. 17 as a winter storm ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - International sanctions against Rwanda will reduce the incentive for Kinshasa to engage in peace talks with M23 rebels who have made lightning advances in eastern Congo this ...

An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks, health experts say. The interval between ...

Kinshasa, DRC: An unknown illness has killed more than 50 people in the north-west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to doctors on the ground and the World Health Organisation.