Protesters in the Congo attacked the historically significant Belgian Embassy amid anger at foreign interference in the ...

The recent history of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) has been one of civil war and corruption. It is rich in ...

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

When Belgium’s King Leopold II declared the Congo his personal property in the late 19th century, he unleashed one of history’s most brutal exploitation schemes. Under the guise of ...

War in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has exploded into global headlines once again after Rwanda-backed rebels captured ...

A rebel outfit that easily dispatches the national army, doing so with lightning speed, must surely have external benefactors doing the propping and supplying the military wherewithal ...

The conflict's roots became even more entangled when the Belgian government took over administration of Congo in 1908 from King Leopold II, who had run the territory as his personal fiefdom since 1885 ...

Belgium's 2025 stamps usher in the fourth year of cataloguing the country's extensive program. This all started innocently enough in 2021, with a project to ...

These were the updates about the situation in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo on Wednesday, January 29, 2025.