While the Interfaith Platform organized a prayer gathering February 3 in Kinshasa, leaders of the Catholic Church and the ...

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

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 ...

Hundreds of wounded people have poured into overcrowded hospitals in Goma after the M23 rebels say they captured the major city in eastern Congo last week GOMA, Congo -- Hundreds of wounded people ...

An ongoing escalation has displaced around half a million more people and led to the capture last week of Congo's largest eastern city Goma, fanning fears of regional wars like those that killed ...

The economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - a nation endowed with vast natural resource wealth - continues to perform poorly. Systemic corruption since independence in 1960, combined ...

Many of the millions of people trapped in eastern Congo’s escalating rebellion face a terrible choice: Retreat into Congo’s interior and seek the protection of a weak army in disarray, or cross into ...

Among the Ba’Aka—a forest-dwelling people indigenous to the Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Gabon, and Cameroon—stories of the “one who stops rivers” have endured for ...

Congo -- Fighting last week between Congolese government forces and Rwanda-backed rebels in the major eastern city of Goma left at least 900 people dead, the U.N. health agency said Monday ...

M23 had 6,000 fighters. The balance of 3,000 would also be resettled in Bas’Congo, far away from their ethnic base in Eastern DRC. The government in Kinshasa was supposed to organize logistics to ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s government on Tuesday ... for the safe passage of aid and hundreds of thousands of displaced people.