Angola has announced plans to mediate peace talks between the Democratic Republic of Congo and the M23 rebel group. This ...

Few relationships are as fraught with complexity and moral ambiguity as those between the United States and the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

The recent African Union (AU) summit addressed the legacies of colonialism, slavery and systemic discrimination on the continent. The February gathering in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, focused ...

The war in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on the border with Rwanda, has caused at least six million deaths in ...

In other developments, the recently identified clade 1a virus that has the APOBEC3 mutation, linked to more transmissibility, ...

The Central African Copper Bonanza by Timo Särkkä analyses the Western colonial origins of the mining industry and its ...

Make no mistake, imperialism is back and the American Republic, ironically the original home of anti-imperialism, is driving ...

Health authorities have yet to identify the cause of outbreaks of a disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo that the World Health Organization has called “a significant public health threat.” Last ...

The political system in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is paralyzed due the manipulation of the electoral process by political elites, and is heavily influenced by a long-running conflict ...

Kinshasa, DRC: An unknown illness has killed more than 50 people in the north-west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to doctors on the ground and the World Health Organisation.

An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks, health experts say. The interval between ...

An unknown disease has killed more than 50 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to doctors. The World Health Organisation's (WHO) Africa office said the first outbreak was ...