As the Congo’s town politicians bickered and battled, few of them had a thought for a greater tragedy unfolding in the remote bush of South Kasai. There 300,000 pathetic Baluba tribesmen, hurled out ...

Hidden inside your smartphone, your laptop, your electric car is the metal cobalt, an ingredient crucial for a rechargeable lithium-ion batteries and other renewable energy sources. Much of the ...

Long-simmering ethnic tensions in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo—fed at times by its neighbors—have erupted into the most intense clashes in a decade as warring militias fight for control of ...

Six million have died, and more than six million are displaced after decades of fighting and the ensuing humanitarian crisis in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, drawing in ...

At last the Congolese government seemed aware that it had a problem in Kwilu province. With Army Chief General Joseph Mobutu back on duty after a month-long vacation, 700 green-bereted Congolese ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Militia fighters killed at least 55 civilians in an attack on a cluster of villages and a camp for displaced people in northeastern Congo, local authorities said Tuesday. Violence ...

As the Democratic Republic of the Congo faces continued violence, social media users are using the phrase “All Eyes on Congo” to draw attention to the country’s decades-long conflict—as similar posts ...

There is no evidence for former President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that “the Congo” has emptied prisons to allow violent criminals to come to the US border as migrants – and the governments of ...

Peatlands and rainforests in the Congo Basin protect the planet by storing carbon. Now, in a giant leap backward for the climate, they’re being auctioned off for drilling. By Ruth Maclean and Dionne ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. KINSHASA, Congo — A military court in Congo on Tuesday convicted former President Joseph Kabila of treason and ...