SAN FRANCISCO – When Jonathan Kuminga discusses his homeland, he does so in a steady voice that affirms conviction, even as his eyes convey the misery they’ve seen. Count him among those with a deep ...

BULENGO, Congo (AP) — A hooded man burst into the 42-year-old woman’s tent while her children were out searching for food, then raped her in the displacement camp where she had fled war in eastern ...

Fighters from Democratic Republic of Congo's M23 rebel group killed at least 20 men and raped scores of women and girls in the east in November, Amnesty International said in a report on Friday. The ...

"Jolianne" was 13 in April 2019 when, she says, a driver for the World Health Organization pulled up to her while she was selling phone cards on the side of the road in the Democratic Republic of ...

Lisa Shannon could not sit still after watching an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show that revealed the story of the world’s deadliest conflict — a Congolese war in which scores of women are raped, and ...

An apparent missed call led to a large portion of a women’s soccer team attacking a referee. Members of DC Motema Pembe, a women’s soccer team in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, chased and ...

The 42-year-old mother of four who was raped in the Bulengo displacement camp where she had fled war in eastern Congo poses for a photograph Aug. 23. (Moses Sawasawa/Associated Press) BULENGO, Congo — ...

Refugees in Igne, Republic of Congo founded an agricultural cooperative to transform small land plots into thriving farms. Credit: Lisungi / World Bank. The Lisungi project has empowered refugee women ...