The burden that Patrice Lumumba, prime minister of the Republic of the Congo, assumed was an awesome one. On his young, slim ...

Bukavu's fall, if confirmed, marks the armed group's most significant advance since it revived a decade-old insurgency in ...

Residents and business owners in eastern Congo’s second largest city are sitting in wait after a night of loud gunfire ...

China is reaping the rewards of its massive mining investment in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the form of surging ...

Rwanda rejects allegations from Congo, the United Nations, and Western powers that thousands of its troops are fighting ...

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

Democratic Republic of Congo, which is the third leg of the tripod, has been so burdened politically since its independence in 1960 that presently it has nothing to offer but its scintillating ...

The independence of the African colonies - the independence of Congo in particular - was a lie, the movie continues. A ruse put together by American and European governments and companies to keep ...

Tensions are mounting in the central African country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo as anti-government militants are ...

DRC gained independence in 1960 and since then the ... Faced with this situation, the UN deployed the UN Operation in the Congo (ONUC) in July 1960 . The first large-scale peacekeeping mission ...

share borders with Congo and are “directly impacted” by the escalation in the east of the country. The joint summit "affirmed the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the DRC ...