Patrice Lumumba became the prime minister of newly independent Congo. His close ally Andrée Blouin describes how Belgium and ...

(Reuters) -Representatives of Congo's powerful Catholic church met on Wednesday with a rebel leader whose Rwandan-backed M23 ...

The U.N. says more than 110,000 displaced people have in recent days left settlement camps in eastern Congo’s cities ...

Nearly three thousand people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to ...

The trial of 84 Congolese soldiers accused of murder, rape and other crimes against civilians in the country’s ...

M23 fighters and Rwandan troops on Wednesday pushed further into the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, as Burundi warned ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of ...

Hundreds of women were raped and burned to death after militants raided a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The M23 captured Goma, a city of nearly two million people, last week after a lightning advance in DR Congo's eastern region.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...