This article explores the history, rules, and impact of Sape, highlighting its deep connection with music and its role in ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been in the headlines as of late with reports about conflict and the advances of the so-called March 23 Movement rebels. But the colonial history and ...

Guest columnist Ben Chappell, having seen the benefits of USAID in other countries, writes that President Donald Trump’s ...

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

The Sape movement, originating in the Congo, blends fashion, culture, and resistance, symbolizing a form of social and political defiance. Sapeurs, members of the Society of Ambience-Makers and ...

Direct peace talks between AFC/M23 rebels and the Congolese government are set to start in Luanda, on March 18, Angola’s presidency announced in a statement on Wednesday, March 13. The possibility of ...

Yet the war unfolding in the Democratic Republic of Congo remains an afterthought. A bloody conflict is met with condemnations but no meaningful action. This stark contrast is not just neglect ...

But that calculation changed during Congo's 1997 civil war ... years is an expanded view of what can only be called chimp culture, a tradition of using complex "tool kits." After a decade of ...

Rebels from the March 23 Movement, supported by Rwandan forces, entered Goma, a city in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on January 26. They are now engaging the Congolese armed ...

PRETORIA, December 3. /TASS/. More than 140 people have died from an unknown disease in Kwango, a province in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Reuters said, citing local ...