Maman Soki is carrying a heavy sack of debris up a muddy slope at this mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. She is one of a small group of Congolese women to turn to mining in order to ...

MANGAREDJIPA, Congo (Reuters) -Maman Soki is among a small group of Congolese women undertaking heavy mining work for survival after escaping a deadly attack on her village by Islamic State-aligned ...

BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of the Congo--(BUSINESS WIRE)--From January 5 to 10, 2025, the hotel group Les Relais de l’Alima hosted the inaugural edition of “Mboka Na Bisso,” meaning “Our Country” in ...

M23 rebels say retraining Congolese police in occupied Bukavu Around 1,800 police officers have surrendered, rebel alliance says UN demands M23 cease hostilities, withdraw from eastern Congo Feb 22 ...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nearly 40 people were killed Sunday in eastern Congo's Ituri province when rebels stormed a Catholic church during a vigil and opened fire on worshipers, including many women and ...

complicit in the exploitative supply chain in the Congo for decades, but the hands of consumers aren’t any more clean. Our participation in the development and usage of convenient, luxurious, solution ...

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo say they thwarted an attempted coup in the capital Kinshasa on Sunday. Armed men attempted to storm the presidential palace, as well as the home of a ...

In Belgium, a court has found the Belgian government guilty of crimes against humanity for the forced removal of five mixed-race children from their Congolese mothers during Belgium’s colonization of ...

ROME — The Vatican has beatified a Congolese customs worker who was killed for resisting a bribe, giving young people in a place with endemic corruption a new model of holiness: someone who refused to ...

As an uneasy calm returned to the Congolese city of Goma, following a unilateral ceasefire declared by the rebels, people began burying the dead, and agencies rushed aid to thousands of displaced ...

The conflict in the Congo is one of the deadliest crises in the world, but many worry that Trump’s interest in the region emphasizes deals for US investors over lasting peace. The Democratic Republic ...

(Amends media identifier, fixes typo in the lead, adds name of militant group in second paragraph) MANGAREDJIPA, Congo (Reuters) -Maman Soki is among a small group of Congolese women undertaking heavy ...