More than 100 female prisoners were raped and then burned alive during a jailbreak in the Congolese city of Goma, according to the UN. Hundreds of prisoners broke out of Munzenze prison last Monday, ...

Up to 167 women have been raped and killed after prisoners escaped jail in the DRC, according to a UN document seen by the BBC.

Bodies in the streets, no clean water and an intensifying rainy season, trigger escalating health risks in Goma, the ...

The United Nations confirmed at least 900 people died in the fighting and another million were displaced, but the full scale of the human toll is still emerging. Many of those who died are women and ...