The UNHCR spokesperson also highlighted the fact that “heavy artillery shelling and looting” have destroyed 70,000 emergency ...

Hundreds of thousands of displaced people sheltering in camps in and around the city of Goma, in Democratic Republic of Congo ...

The U.N. children’s fund is accusing armed men, likely on both sides of the conflict in eastern Congo, of raping scores of ...

Since the attack by the M23 group, the humanitarian situation in North Kivu in the DRC has deteriorated dramatically. In view of this, Switzerland is making CHF 3 million available, of which CHF 2 ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is alarmed by the rapidly worsening humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as the continued lack of access to displaced people hampers the ...

M23 fighters on Friday seized the airport serving Bukavu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, just as African leaders ...

An offensive by M23 fighters is disrupting health services and displacing people in a region already beset by health ...

Cambodian scientist Yeang Chheang has spent six decades fighting malaria -- even in the Khmer Rouge labour camp where his ...