In Central Africa lies a country, almost a subcontinent, roughly the size of all of Western Europe—one of the richest countries in terms of resources, yet one of the poorest in terms of resource gain ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council should create an independent mandate to investigate abuses by all parties to the ...

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

Ombeni ran out the office and into the street, where crowds tried to dodge bullets and vehicles speeding through the city, ...

Lubumbashi is little known, but its minerals electrified the world, created atom bombs and are key to greener energy, the ...

A rebel group that claimed to have captured the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last week has called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, after fighting with the Congolese ...

The Rwanda-backed rebels who seized eastern Congo’s key city of Goma have announced a unilateral ceasefire in the region for humanitarian reasons.

Since flag independence from Belgium on June 30, 1960 and since the gruesome murder of its founding president, Patrice ...

Just two months after Congo’s independence, Lumumba was dismissed as prime minister ... and grand UN speeches about self-determination with short and shiny modern-day advertisements for iPhones and ...

After seizing the biggest city in eastern DR Congo, the Rwandan-backed armed group M23 was advancing south through a ...

Fighting has escalated sharply in recent weeks in eastern Congo, where rebels have seized key towns and are closing in on the ...