Congo, wood engraving, published 1893 Warrior of the Aka people. The Aka or Bayaka (also BiAka, Babenzele) are a nomadic Mbenga pygmy people in southwestern Central African Republic and in northern ...

“As native peoples, we know nothing,” said Kapupu Diwa Mutimanwa, president of the League of Indigenous Pygmy Associations of Congo. “We have not been consulted about this project – nor have local ...

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) said on Thursday that a summit of regional heads of state had terminated ...

Their rapid offensive has killed around 7,000 people, Congo says. Another group of South African soldiers were due to return home later this week, the SANDF said. An official from the union that ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A group of critically injured South African peacekeepers who were hurt in fighting in eastern Congo a month ago have been evacuated by the United Nations ...

The wounded troops were part of a mission sent by the 16-nation Southern African Development ... More than 7,000 people have been killed in the fighting since January, DR Congo's Prime Minister ...

In 1963, nearly three dozen newly independent African nations met in Addis Ababa to ... has overrun an area of eastern Congo that is home to more than five million people. In late January, the rebels ...

The African leaders represent around 1.5 billion people in a body long criticised ... M23 but has accused extremist Hutu groups in DR Congo of threatening its security. Observers have branded ...