Davdan Peace And Advocacy Foundation, in partnership with 100 Most Notable Peace Icon Africa, the organisers of the annual ...

Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi has bemoaned inaction by the international community to end the fighting in the volatile eastern region. Experts, however, urge a local-driven process to find ...

Amid the ongoing violence in Congo, hundreds of women in Goma's Munzenze Prison were raped and burnt alive after the city was ...

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

Hundreds of Congolese women were raped and burnt alive after Rwandan-backed militants raided a prison. The female inmates ...

From Ghana to Namibia, recent appointments of women to top political positions have been encouraging. But with more women in significant roles, are African nations really boosting female political ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels last week captured regional capital Goma in an anarchic and mineral-rich part of Democratic Republic of Congo.

Earlier this week, a new UN report warned that unprecedented levels of sexual violence against women and children had ... and blacklisting 'expansionist' Rwanda for backing M23.

The capture of Goma, the main city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, last week by the M23 rebel group follows a ...

Ms Wagner accused Rwanda of "pillaging" the DRC's natural resources by using forced labour - involving Congolese men, women and children - to mine minerals under the threat of violence.

A few hundred women were also in that prison ... Prior to this, fears had been mounting that that Rwanda was determined to take more territory from its vast neighbour, with M23 forces steadily ...

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