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

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.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo hosts 6.9 million internally displaced people with more than 5 million in the eastern provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri, alongside over 990,000 ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is a country of 115 million people in Central Africa that is home to over 200 distinct ethnic groups, according to the CIA’s World Factbook. ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new agreement between DRC and Rwanda seeks to end violence in eastern DRC, but many local residents remain uncertain about ...