A U.S. pause on foreign aid has had a "major impact" in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where humanitarian operations last year were 70% funded by Washington, the top U.N. aid official in the country said on Tuesday.
Video: M23 targets more territory: Rwanda-backed rebels advance on eastern DRC city
VOA60 Africa - UN accuses M23 rebels of 'summary executions' of children in eastern DRC
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.
M23 fighters press locals into east DR Congo city clean-up
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.
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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 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.
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