The militants have recently seized the capital of North Kivu province in the latest escalation of a decades-long conflict ...

In Congo itself, humans were the least valued commodity, at the mercy of the worst ...

The conflict in the country now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been going on for decades. Historical grievances, governance failures, and social injustices have plunged this diverse ...

Independence for Congo followed a strange course of events unlike anything else in the rest of Africa. The Belgian Congo was huge and underdeveloped. After the war, new cultural organisations like ...

Congo has been wracked by more than a century of violent colonization and imperialism resulting in millions of deaths—and ...

Thrown ignominiously out of its prize Congo colony, scorned and abused by the world for its policies, and facing money troubles after a decade of opulence. Belgium no longer could contain its ...

It is now almost three decades, when the crisis in violatile great lake Eastern regional city of Goma in Democratic Republic ...

The UN says peacekeeping troops have been forced to shelter in their bases in the conflict-torn Congolese city of Goma Read Full Article at RTcom ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo was a Belgian colony until 1960 and the private property of the Belgian king from 1885 to 1908. The country has had various names throughout its history, ...