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

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 ...

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 ...

Congo has been plagued by war for nearly three decades. Millions of people have been displaced, and rape has consistently ...

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

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

The war erupting in the Democratic Republic of Congo has its roots in the Rwandan genocide and the bloodiest war of the 21st ...

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.

The burden that Patrice Lumumba, prime minister of the Republic of the Congo, assumed was an awesome one. On his young, slim ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of ...