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Mass looting and sporadic gunfire is reported in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, as M23 rebels advance into the city. Mobs loot several facilities, including a World Food Programme depot.
2025-02-15

The Democratic Republic of the Congo bans Al Jazeera from operating in the country and revokes its press credentials, citing the network's interview with M23 rebel leader Bertrand Bisimwa as an endorsement of terrorism. Authorities warn against reporting on the group, with the justice minister threatening to invoke the death penalty, although no formal law bans such coverage.
2025-01-9

An Ebola vaccination campaign begins in the city of Butembo, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Health workers are the first to be vaccinated.
2021-02-15

The army of the Democratic Republic of the Congo says it killed 33 militiamen and reported the death of two soldiers in days of intense fighting in Ituri province. The army says it seized control of two rebel strongholds held by the Cooperative for the Development of Congo (CODECO) group, which is accused by the United Nations of committing war crimes.
2020-10-28

The Allied Democratic Forces kill at least 17 people in a village in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of three massacres by the ADF this week.
2020-05-26

The Extraordinary African Chambers tribunal in Dakar, Senegal, upholds its conviction of former Chadian president Hissène Habré for crimes against humanity, but acquits him of rape.
2017-04-27

The former President of Israel Moshe Katsav arrives at a prison outside Tel Aviv to start a seven year term for rape.
2011-12-7

A new centre to help rape victims in the Democratic Republic of the Congo opens in the eastern city of Bukavu.
2011-02-4

United Nations envoy Margot Wallström says Congolese government troops may have committed rape and murder in the Democratic Republic of the Congo weeks after similar attacks by rebels.
2010-10-15

Foreign human rights groups accuse Rwandan and Congolese rebels of gang-raping nearly 200 women and some baby boys over four days within miles of a U.N. peacekeepers' base in the village of Bunangiri, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2010-08-24