The United Nations Security Council met for the second time in three days on Tuesday to discuss the escalating crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. ... Goma, amid rising death ...

The United Nations Security Council on Sunday demanded that M23 rebel forces stop an ongoing offensive and advance towards Goma, the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and that ...

Five countries won seats on the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday in uncontested elections and will start serving two-year terms in January on the U.N.’s most powerful but deeply ...

Rwanda's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ernest Rwamucyo speaks during a Security Council meeting at the United Nations headquarters, Jan. 26, 2025.

The United Nations Security Council adopted its first resolution, S/RES/1(1946), on 25 January 1946 – long before the current modes of online distribution of documents. As of 30 November 2024 ...

Only nine months ago, Sierra Leone returned as a non-permanent member of the Security Council after an absence of 53 years. Twenty-five years ago, our shattering civil war was among the thorniest ...

The United Nations Security Council moved up an emergency meeting on the escalating violence to Sunday morning. Congo requested the meeting, which had originally been scheduled for Monday.

A Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters in New York on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg/Getty Images. CNN — ...

Gunfire rang out early on Monday across parts of Goma, the largest city in eastern Congo, hours after Rwanda-backed rebels said they had seized the city despite the United Nations Security Council ...

The United Nations Security Council adopted a US-led resolution on Russia’s war against Ukraine Monday after it failed to pass earlier in the day in the body’s General Assembly.

The Security Council, the United Nations’ principal crisis-management body, is empowered to impose binding obligations on the 193 UN member states to maintain peace.