For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

In the late 1950s Pan-African activist Andrée Blouin contributed to Sékou Touré’s campaign for independence in Guinea, then ...

particularly Belgian Congo, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The museum even traces its roots to an exhibition in the late 1890s that included a human zoo, where Congolese people ...

When global powers chant never again after atrocities, we must ask: do they truly mean repentance, or do they mean never again without profit? Belgium's colonial strategy had one objective: relentless ...

From 1908 to 1960, when the Congo Free State became Belgian Congo, it issued identity cards for its overseas citizens of the Belgian Congo. Among the people who were issued the Belgian Congo ...

Persistent governance failures, corruption, and empty promises have destabilized eastern DR Congo for decades and the government in Kinshasa has not only failed to dismantle the "more than 200 armed ...

DR CONGO: Peace talks between the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) and M23 rebels will begin on ...

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

M23 fighters, backed by Rwanda, continue to advance into eastern DR Congo. While the rebels are outnumbered by the Congolese army, DW examines whether the military has the capacity to respond ...

French prosecutors have closed a case filed by Democratic Republic of Congo accusing Apple subsidiaries of using conflict ...

Rwanda suspended development cooperation with Belgium for trying to “sabotage” its access to financing amid disagreements over its role in the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.