This weekend, the group entered the gold-trading center of Bukavu in eastern Congo after government soldiers fled. By Elian Peltier and Justin Makangara Elian Peltier reported from Dakar ...

Andrée Blouin (1921–1986) was a central figure in the struggles for decolonization that swept Africa in the 1950s and ’60s, ...

Belgian national carrier Brussels Airlines is celebrating 100 years of flights between Belgium and Africa. The Belgium-Africa ...

GOMA, Congo — Panic swept through eastern Congo’s second-largest city on Saturday as residents fled by the thousands, scrambling to escape the looming advance of Rwanda-backed rebels.

A largescale plantation drive has been launched in Lahore to grow a forest on 978 acres along the Ravi River. As part of the campaign, 105,000 trees have been planted on 144 acres, with the ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

Rwandan-backed rebels have occupied a second major city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Congo River Alliance, a group of rebel outfits including M23, said in a statement its ...

UN agency says children as young as 12 are also being enlisted or coerced to join the fighting by armed groups. Analysts weigh in on Rwanda’s role in the conflict in DRC, whether minerals are a ...

Directed by Johan Grimonprez, it cut deep into the blood-and-rubber ties between Belgium and Congo, shining a light on the United Nations, jazz as a political agent and the plot to assassinate Congo’s ...

The conflict's roots became even more entangled when the Belgian government took over administration of Congo in 1908 from King Leopold II, who had run the territory as his personal fiefdom since 1885 ...