The Rwanda-backed group known as M23 is believed to have been responsible for the incident following its takeover of the city of Goma AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa Hundreds of women were raped and burned to ...

Wearing leather leggings under her dress, Imelda Mbambu weaves her motorcycle taxi through the city of Beni in north east Congo, a handbag slung across her side and a happy customer perched on the ...

At least 165 women were raped by male inmates after a mass breakout from a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said, citing officials in the central African nation. After ...

DAKAR, Senegal — The number of children and women who are survivors of sexual violence in Congo surged over four fold over the first half this year, Save The Children said on Thursday, amid a ...

GOMA, Congo—The women walk in silence, their flip flops tapping the black volcanic rocks, sometimes catching the plants that crop up in between. On open stretches of their five-hour march, they ...

Savannah native Janiqwa “Nqwamary” Nganga was given the rare honor of being named chief and queen of an African tribe.