Congo’s government and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels are accusing each other of violating terms of a ceasefire deal aimed at ...

How would Sassou Nguesso’s long stay in office affect this election? Sassou Nguesso first came into power in 1979, following a military coup. His rule was interrupted in 1992 after he lost the country ...

The attack struck a residential area of Goma, killing an employee of the U.N.’s children’s agency and two others amid a sharp ...

From pangolin scales to elephant tusks, from African gray parrots to manatees, the illicit trade in wildlife products and ...

Congo Republic President Denis Sassou Nguesso looks set to extend his decades-long rule in elections on Sunday, even as his advanced age and a term limit fuel speculation about who ​will eventually ...

Canal+'s announcement that it's pulling the plug on MultiChoice's Showmax has upset Africa's creatives and content producers.

In a new study published in N ature Geoscience, the team focused on two darkly stained lakes shaped by organic runoff from ...

James Sligo Jameson, heir to the Jameson Irish Whiskey fortune, reportedly paid to witness an act of cannibalism in Congo, then made sketches of the horrifying scene ...

James Sligo Jameson, heir to the Jameson Irish Whiskey fortune, allegedly paid handkerchiefs to witness a young girl's death by cannibalism during an 1888 Congo expedition ...

WARING: DISTRESSING CONTENT James Sligo Jameson was heir to the Jameson Irish Whiskey fortune and joined Henry Morton Stanley's Congo expedition where witnesses claimed he gave handkerchiefs to see a ...

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 8 (Reuters) - South Africa will withdraw its troops from the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, President Cyril Ramaphosa's office said in a ...

XSML Capital closed African Rivers Fund IV at $142m, above its $135m target The fund aims to finance about 50 small and medium-sized businesses Investments focus on Eastern Africa, Angola, and the ...