The M23 armed group is advancing on strategic zones in the eastern DRC after taking two key cities, Goma and Bukavu, according to the United Nations on Wednesday. U.N. Security Council members met on Wednesday in hopes of averting the widening of conflict into a regional war.

Rape and other violence against children in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has soared to unprecedented levels, the head of the United Nations children's agency warned Thursday.

When some of the world’s “authoritarian and repressive regimes” were elected as members of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) –including Cuba, China, Russia, Kazakhstan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) — a US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher infamously remarked: “The inmates have taken over the asylum,

Volker Turk says his office has ‘confirmed’ cases of rebels killing and recruiting children in eastern DRC. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk on Tuesday accused Rwanda-backed rebels, who seized a second major city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo,

Speaking at the AU summit, Antonio Guterres called for talks saying there was no military solution to the fighting.

Rwanda-backed rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have advanced southward, reaching Burundi’s border and bringing the central African region to the brink of war, the United Nations said.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged dialogue between warring parties in eastern Congo on Saturday, hours after Rwanda-backed M23 rebels entered the northern suburbs of the provincial capital Bukavu.

The M23 armed group has committed "summary executions" of children in Bukavu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the United Nations on Tuesday. The U.N. human rights office warned that the situation in eastern DRC was "deteriorating sharply.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) strongly condemned the looting of its warehouses in Bukavu, South Kivu, amid escalating violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

Burundi is withdrawing its forces from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where they had been fighting against M23 rebels, four sources said on Tuesday, in a further blow to Congo's army as it struggles to halt a rebel advance.

Boat traffic returned to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Lake Kivu on Tuesday as ports re-opened in two cities which have fallen to M23 rebels, a development the United Nations said could facilitate access to humanitarian aid after weeks of fighting and looting.

The capture of Bukavu would represent an unprecedented expansion of territory under the M23's control since the latest insurgency started in 2022.