Virtually all banks are closed. Currency shortages abound. Staples prices have jumped. Now residents are finding themselves ...

He took over leadership of the country in 2001 at the age of just 29, after his father and former coup leader, President ...

The International Committee of the Red Cross says it is helping transfer hundreds of Congolese soldiers and police officers ...

The mission to bring peace to eastern Congo, however, is far from accomplished. The recent past is littered with broken ...

Democratic Republic of Congo has launched a bid to strip former President Joseph Kabila of immunity so he can face trial on ...

‘Growth in minerals, metals, and energy is a matter of U.S. national security,’ an insider says.

In this particular case, the ICRC was approached by several actors – notably the DRC’s ministry of defence and veterans, ...

In an escalation of a long-running conflict rooted in the spillover of Rwanda's 1994 genocide and the struggle over Congo's vast mineral resources, Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seized Goma, eastern ...

On 23 April, delegations from Kinshasa and rebel group M23’s political affiliate, Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC), declared their intent to work towards a ceasefire and continue discussions on the root ...

The International Committee of the Red Cross says it has helped transfer hundreds of Congolese soldiers and police officers from the rebel-controlled town of Goma in eastern Congo to the capital Kinsh ...

On 30 April 2025, following a request to act as a neutral intermediary, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is accompanying a series of convoys from Goma to Kinshasa transporting ...

If the next pope is from sub-Saharan Africa, he would be the first in Catholic Church history. Catholic Africans think it is ...