Protesters have attacked missions in the capital of the African country as anger grows about the advance of the M23 rebel group.

It was later handed over to the Belgian state, which ruled it as a colony before the Congo gained independence in 1960. French was the official language of the area during these colonial times ...

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

The capture of Goma by M23 rebels attracted much noise from western countries and especially the European Parliament. The UN Security Council also held sessions after the fall of Goma, where the UN ...

The United States Embassy in the Democratic Republic of Congo is reportedly among several ... at a rebel assault in the east of the former French colony. Protesters burned tires and threw stones ...

M23's last occupation of Goma was short-lived, and within a year they were a defeated force. This time, things are different.

In December 2006, statisticians had a close brush with the aftermath of the five-nation war in the Democratic Republic of Congo ... the colonial project, particularly the French colonial debt.

UN chief Antonio Guterres on Saturday demanded the Democratic Republic of Congo's "territorial integrity" be respected and a ...

Members of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC), who surrendered ... its authority wanes in its former West African colonies. Kagame has deployed thousands of Rwandan ...