Leaders from eastern and southern Africa on Saturday called for an immediate ceasefire in eastern Congo, where rebels are ...

In Central Africa lies a country, almost a subcontinent, roughly the size of all of Western Europe—one of the richest countries in terms of resources, yet one of the poorest in terms of resource gain ...

In the eastern reaches of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the shimmering waters of Lake Kivu meet rolling green ...

Eastern Congo, a peripheral part of the inter-lacustrine ... and his family naming it with oxymoronic bravura as “the Free Congo State”. Several decades later after the monstrous tyrant ...

Congolese forces were losing control of the city of Goma on Wednesday after rebel groups backed by Rwanda took over the ...

Since the colonial era, when Congo was under the absolute rule of King Leopold II of Belgium, foreign powers have been not only pillaging natural resources from the Free State of Congo (today known as ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo — On Monday, M23 rebels backed by Rwandan troops entered the city of ... So far African and international diplomacy has had little impact. Secretary of State Marco ...

Following the M23's capture of Goma, the eight-state East African Community, of which Congo and Rwanda are members, is scheduled to hold an emergency summit on Wednesday evening.

It started with a most deceptive name, the Congo Free State, the name for what was a personal real estate fiefdom for Belgium’s king Leopold who retained mercenary explorers in the 19th Century ...

President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Felix Tshisekedi met Saturday in Kinshasa with HE Minister of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dr. Mohammed bin Abdulaziz bin Saleh Al ...

United Nations officials say there were dead bodies on the streets of eastern Congo’s largest city where hospitals are ...