On Thursday February 13, 2025 Africa joined the rest of world to celebrate the role that radio, still considered the most widely accessed medium on the continent on the plays in the understanding, ...

Geneva, Feb 8, (dpa/GNA) – The UN Human Rights Council, will discuss the devastating violence in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday. According to the government in Kinshasa, more ...

UN human rights chief Volker Turk has expressed grave concerns over increasing human rights violations in eastern Congo, including rape and sexual slavery. The crisis, linked to the M23 rebels, has ...

Geneva, Feb 7 (IANS): The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk on Friday warned that the escalating violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) could ...

AFP In the eastern reaches of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the shimmering waters of Lake ... Behind the political manoeuvring and resource extraction lies a human tragedy of ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council today agreed by consensus ... to the armed conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The council reached its decision during a special session ...

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GENEVA — The U.N.’s top human rights body on Friday condemned Rwanda’s support of rebel fighters across the border in eastern Congo and ordered a team of experts to examine rights violations ...

Patrick Muyaya Katembwe, DRC's communications minister, told the council, "The Democratic Republic of Congo calls for establishing an international commission of inquiry to examine the human ...

GENEVA — The U.N.’s top human rights body was holding an urgent session on Friday on spiralling violence in eastern Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels recently captured a key city and some ...

For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering creature living in the Congo River Basin. The alleged ... increased ...