Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), its prime minister told a high-level meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday.

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Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi will launch a unity government, his spokesperson said on Saturday, as he faces domestic pressure over his handling of an offensive by Rwanda-backed M23 rebels ...

However, the government of Rwanda rejects all accusations of this. The DRC authorities are outraged at Rwanda’s contempt for them, decrying it as an open provocation. At the United Nations on January ...

Rwanda's foreign ministry said the sanctions would not resolve the conflict in the DR Congo, terming them "unjustified and unfounded". They come as the M23 appears to be continuing its advance ...

“Everybody is really worried,” said Sara Rosenberg, who volunteered at the two-decade-old Lwiro Primates Rehabilitation Centre (CRPL) in Lwiro village in DRC’s South Kivu province, where ...

Kabarebe, a former Rwandan general, is a Rwandan government liaison to M23 who orchestrates RDF support for the armed group and manages its generation of revenue from the DRC's mineral resources ...

This is despite repeated United Nations reports outlining his government’s funding for the M23 rebels — who have in the past month captured three major DRC cities and annexed massive territory ...

"This aggression has undermined the territorial integrity of the DRC," State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said in a statement, warning that Rwanda should end its support for M23 and return ...

In a statement by the US State Department, Gen Kabarebe, Kanyuka and two companies are linked to violence and human rights abuses in eastern DRC. “The United States is sanctioning today two ...

Earlier this month DRC's foreign minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner urged the three clubs to end their "blood-stained" sponsorship agreements with "Visit Rwanda", questioning the morality of such ...