Follow IOL's coverage as South Africa prepares for President Cyril Ramaphosa's SONA 2025 and traffic disruptions in Cape Town ...

Learn more about the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and how humanitarian organizations are ...

The group has made dramatic advances in Congo’s North Kivu province since re-emerging as a force in late 2021. It has ...

Nearly three thousand people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to ...

For sapeurs, appearance is a powerful way to make an impression and stand out in an environment often defined by hardship.

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 ...

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

Thousands of steelworkers took to the streets of Brussels on Wednesday to demand EU help for a sector whose decline is the ...

For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

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

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

DR Congo is a country in Central Africa but many people do not know that the country hosts many mineral resources important ...