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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in Democratic Republic of Congo are seeking to advance south towards Bukavu, the capital of South ...