KCB has shut 15 branches in the DRC as clashes between M23 rebels and government forces escalate, raising concerns over ...

African leaders have announced the withdrawal of thousands of troops from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi, who were sent to ...

Direct peace talks between the Democratic Republic of Congo and M23 rebels will begin in the Angolan capital on March 18, ...

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

Six weeks after Rwanda-backed rebels captured the eastern Congolese cities of Goma and Bukavu, the region is facing a setback ...

Will offers of resource wealth to the US and other powers help bring militia violence to heel in the Democratic Republic of ...

Fighting by Islamic State and other terrorist groups over minerals and power has led to widespread killings and rape in the DRC. Disease, child slavery and Christian persecution stalk the population.

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 ...

A conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is set to erupt into a wider ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today issued a new position on returns to the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), advising that Congolese nationals fleeing the conflict, as well as those ...

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

Sam Nujoma, Namibia’s founding president who steered the country to freedom from apartheid South Africa, was laid to rest in ...