Disease is rampant, and children as young as 4 are being forced to work in mines. The Democratic Republic of Congo is 95% ...

The DRC seeks to offer key minerals to the U.S., but rebel forces and China largely control access to these vital rare earth resources, which are said to be worth trillions of dollars.

Congo, which is rich in cobalt, lithium and uranium, has been fighting Rwanda-backed M23 rebels that seized swathes of its ...

Federal health officials are monitoring the outbreak of a deadly and mysterious disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo, ...

A boat has capsized in southwestern Congo and killed 25 people, many of them soccer players, authorities said Monday.

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

“Following the diligence carried out by Angolan mediation in the conflict affecting the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the Government of the Republic of Angola makes public that ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group cautiously welcomed Thursday the prospect of direct negotiations with the Congolese government to end the conflict in the volatile eastern Democratic Republic of ...

The ongoing violent conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which keeps escalating, risks spreading to the entire nation and even becoming regional if there is no immediate ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) suspects that poisoning or meningitis could explain a mysterious illness that has reportedly killed 53 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.