See 12 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

The United Nations Human Rights Council today agreed by consensus to launch an urgent fact-finding mission and commission of ...

The Africa Business Leadership and Investment Summit (ABLIS) 2025 has been relocated to Accra, Ghana, due to escalating security concerns in East Africa. The event, now scheduled for 21-25 April 2025, ...

A single image captures the grim task facing those who needed to find space for the dead after a spasm of violence in Central ...

On Jan. 28, the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 captured Goma, capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich ...

Officials and residents say Rwanda-backed rebels have gained ground in eastern Congo despite the unilateral ceasefire they ...

Congo’s government has described the unilateral ceasefire declared by Rwanda-backed rebels in eastern Congo as “false ...

The U.N. health agency says at least 900 people were killed in last week’s fighting in Goma between the rebels and Congolese ...

Fighting last week between Congolese government forces and Rwanda-backed rebels in the major eastern city of Goma left at ...

Large parts of Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, are now under the control of the M23 and their Rwanda ...

Rwanda-backed rebels have captured eastern Congo’s strategic city of Goma, the hub of a region containing trillions of ...

President of the Democratic Republic of Congo said on Thursday that his troopers are fighting an insurgence by the ...