Panic swept through eastern Congo's second-largest city on Saturday as residents and soldiers fled by the thousands, ...

Andrée Blouin (1921–1986) was a central figure in the struggles for decolonization that swept Africa in the 1950s and ’60s, ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels advanced on Sunday into the center of Bukavu, the second-largest city in eastern Democratic ...

French Culture Minister Rachida Dati began a visit on Monday to disputed Western Sahara where she will meet officials and ...

General, António Guterres, emphasized the potential of Africa and its young population and called for global reforms to right the injustices of the past, in remarks delivered to the high-level African ...

The violent independence process of the Belgium Congo, starting on 30 June 1960, had a particularly profound influence upon white South African political thinking; for by this date, already 17 African ...

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 ...

Democratic Republic of Congo has freed an opposition leader and the president's former right-hand man, Jean-Marc Kabund, his ...

Rwanda-backed rebels have captured two major cities in Congo’s mineral-rich east after a major escalation in their yearslong ...

The group did not announce advances like a day earlier when they took control of an airport outside the city. A relative calm returned as gunfights stopped after Congolese troops exited the city ...