Since the African continent was divided at the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, the struggle for its wealth has played out on two fronts. The first was political, as European powers, starting with King ...

Congo’s government says Rwanda-backed rebels have occupied a second major city in mineral-rich eastern Congo. The M23 rebels ...

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

The new team takes office at a time the continent is at a critical juncture, dealing with rising political instability and ...

Absent from the gathering, leaders of the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) and the Church of Christ in Congo (ECC) were instead received by Tshisekedi on the same day at their request.

Just two months after Congo’s independence, Lumumba was dismissed as prime minister ... Cold War at the time and the Soviet Union took advantage of the situation, with leader Nikita Khrushchev ...

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

Government officials and local civil society leaders didn’t immediately comment, though Congo’s Communications Ministry said the rebels had violated ceasefire agreements and attacked Congolese ...

The capture of Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province, would represent an unprecedented expansion of territory under the ...