Lumumba remains a leading figure in Congolese and African history. He was a revolutionary and a national hero whose ...

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has reaffirmed his country's commitment to a US-mediated peace agreement aimed at resolving the ...

Learn about sources of continued violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and how the United Nations, African Union, and neighboring countries are struggling to curtail it.

By Daphne Psaledakis, Sonia Rolley and Robbie Corey-Boulet WASHINGTON/PARIS/DAKAR (Reuters) -Rwanda and Democratic Republic ...

Paul Kagame gives cautious welcome to US-brokered agreement, but says success depends on goodwill from warring parties.

Washington — President Trump on Friday celebrated the signing of a U.S.-brokered peace agreement between the Democratic ...

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 ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the second-largest nation in sub-Saharan Africa, with a rapidly growing population of more than 100 million. The DRC is endowed with exceptional natural ...

About 1 a.m. on May 19, 2024, "a large bus with armed men" pulled up to a hotel in southwest Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, where Christian Malanga was staying, court documents say.

In early 2025, fighting between Congolese security forces and militant groups led by M23 escalated rapidly, culminating in M23’s capture of Goma, the regional hub of the Eastern Democratic Republic of ...

A U.S.-Qatar-mediated peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda was expected to bring an end to a decades-long cross-border conflict in central Africa when it goes ...