Panic swept through eastern Congo's second-largest city on Saturday as residents fled by the thousands, scrambling to escape the looming advance of Rwanda-backed rebels.

Panic swept through eastern Congo’s second-largest city on Saturday as residents fled by the thousands, scrambling to escape ...

Patrice Lumumba became the prime minister of newly independent Congo. His close ally Andrée Blouin describes how Belgium and ...

Creating sustainable peace in Congo requires giving justice to the victims of war crimes and preventing the illicit trade in ...

The Congo River Alliance, a coalition of rebel groups including M23 ... A meeting in Equatorial Guinea Friday of another ...

Congo, where the city is located, is thought to be one of the world's most linguistically diverse nations, with more than 200 ...

For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering ...

But the colonial history and ecological significance of the country in Central Africa is getting the spotlight in a new ...

A glimpse of life after the siege in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, as some semblance of a tenuous peace returns, as does the fear of reprisals.

The emergence of Nangaa, an influential figure in the Congo River Alliance, reflects a strategic recalibration of M23, aiming to provoke political negotiations and autonomy discussions with the ...

Rwanda-backed rebels were quickly expanding their presence in eastern Congo after capturing Goma ... people displaced by the conflict. The central African nation’s military has been weakened ...