He declared himself to be the sole proprietor of the African Congo which was a land mass about ... a series of columns he is writing about Black history as the nation observes Black History ...

A conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is set to erupt into a wider ...

The Central African Copper Bonanza by Timo Särkkä analyses the Western colonial origins of the mining industry and its ...

African leaders have announced the withdrawal of thousands of troops from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi who were sent to fight insurgents in mineral-rich eastern Congo, where M23 rebels have ...

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...

The Second Congo War, known also as Africa’s World War, began on Aug. 4, 1998, with one of the most audacious military operations in modern history, Operation Kitona, described by a U.S ...

The M23 rebels' rapid advance is the latest chapter in eastern DR Congo's long history of instability. And what factors were ...

Congo’s army has appeared too weak and dysfunctional to stop a militia that has swept through the eastern part of the country ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters ... offensive has killed around 7,000 people, Congo says. Another group of South African soldiers were due to return home later this ...

Listen YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – A leading African priest and intellectual, Father Stan Chu Ilo says Africa’s history can be explained ... the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Nigeria, Mozambiqu ...

The Catholic Church, which has a long history of monitoring Congo ... Democratic Republic of Congo. Ruth Maclean is the West Africa bureau chief for The Times, covering 25 countries including ...