The 53-year-old led DR Congo for 18 years, after succeeding his father Laurent, who was shot dead in 2001. Speaking to the ...

In eastern Congo, people are trapped between relentless fighting ... prompting them to return to the homes they fled due to fighting in the country's conflict-hit east. However, they find often ...

The U.N. refugee agency said it helped repatriate 360 Rwandan refugees, mostly women and children, as part of a broader plan ...

Officials from the Democratic Republic of Congo are optimistic they can reach a deal with Washington next month to secure U.S ...

Congo was facing one of the biggest human displacement crises in the world. According to the U.N. children's charity, some 7 million people in the east of the country have fled their homes and ...

Congo’s largest penitentiary with a capacity for 1,500 people, holds over 12,000 inmates, most of whom are awaiting trial, Amnesty International said in its latest country report. The facility ...

During the two Congo wars, from 1996-2003 the country was at the centre of what ... An estimated 900,000 to 5,400,000 people are killed or die of disease or famine. 2004 - Kivu conflict breaks ...

People fleeing M-23 rebel advances arrive by boat in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Wednesday ... are common in the central African country, where late-night travels and overcrowded ...

Makala, Congo’s largest penitentiary with a capacity for 1,500 people, holds over 12,000 inmates, most of whom are awaiting trial, Amnesty International said in its latest country report.

DR Congo – a country of more than 100 million people – has experienced decades of violence driven by ethnic tensions and fights over access to land and mineral resources, causing one of the ...

Deadly shipwrecks are unfortunately frequent in the DRC as the country lacks road infrastructure and many people rely on boats to cross the many branches of the Congo River which runs alongside ...