In Stanford's first inaugural Congo Week, students and experts celebrate Congolese heritage and discuss important issues regarding the DRC.

Photographer and visual artist Sammy Baloji discusses his International Film Festival Rotterdam Tiger Competition entry, the ...

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

More than 500,000 people have been displaced thus far in January due to heavy fighting in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the country's foreign minister told an ...

More than 7 million people have been displaced. Congo and the U.N. accuse neighboring Rwanda of backing M23. Rwanda denies the claim, but in February admitted that it has troops and missile ...

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In the two Congos, there's a cultural movement by the Society of Ambience-Makers and Elegant People (Sape), known as "sapeurs", who blend fashion, culture and social resistance. Though it was rooted ...