In the North and South Kivu provinces, we are receiving horrific reports of grave violations against children by parties to ...

With violence intensifying, UNICEF warns that child recruitment, abduction, and sexual violence is rapidly increasing. During ...

The organization, known as UNICEF, reported that health care facilities in the city of Goma and the surrounding areas had documented 170 cases of children having been raped in a single week ...

UNICEF cited reports of the abuses ... In late January, the rebels captured Goma, the region’s largest city, in a major escalation of the fighting. Last week, the United Nations Human Rights ...

M23 rebels backed by Rwanda took the city of Goma in a bloody battle. This weekend, the group entered the gold-trading center of Bukavu in eastern Congo after government soldiers fled.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday condemned the rape of numerous children by armed groups, likely from ...

The United Nations’ children’s agency has accused armed men in eastern Congo of raping hundreds of women and children during ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The U.N. children’s fund on Thursday accused armed men, likely on both sides of the conflict in eastern ...

Armed men have raped dozens of children in eastern Congo, UNICEF says - An aid agency is receiving ‘horrific reports’ of ...

when the M23 rebels first entered Goma and forcing government troops into a chaotic retreat, said Catherine Russell, executive director of Unicef. The agency on Thursday said health authorities ...

UNICEF cited reports of the abuses ... In late January, the rebels captured Goma, the region’s largest city, in a major escalation of the fighting. Last week, the United Nations Human Rights ...