Democratic Republic of the Congo

A former Congolese militia leader, Ntabo Ntaberi Sheka, has been sentenced to life in prison for crimes including mass rape and recruitment of child soldiers. The UN has said the verdict gave "immense hope" to victims.

More than a dozen people have been killed in two attacks near Beni in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that were blamed on the Islamist ADF group, local sources said Sunday. … The group has killed more than 640 civilians since the army launched a crackdown on it last November, according to an unofficial count.

The government hopes to completely disarm the Front for Patriotic Resistance in Ituri (FRPI), one of many rebel movements active in eastern DR Congo, over the next two months.

The group has killed nearly 600 civilians since the army launched a crackdown on it last November, according to an unofficial count.

MONUSCO plans to build five modern military bases for the DRC's Armed Forces in the Beni region of North Kivu to increase their operational capacity to hunt down the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) armed group.

Beni's acting mayor pointed the finger at the ADF, but the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack.

The U.N. refugee agency is racing to help tens of thousands of Congolese forced to flee a recent upsurge of violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. 

Planning for a drawdown of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is well underway, but much work still remains to be done to put the country firmly on the path to long-term stability and sustainable development, the Security Council heard today.

UNICEF on Wednesday became the third UN agency to launch an internal inquiry into sexual abuse of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), promising "serious consequences" for any culprits.