Congo has banned Al Jazeera satellite news network over its interview with the leader of a violent rebel group that has ...

More than 170 inmates on death row were flown from Congo’s capital to a high-security ... a resident of the eastern city of Goma. Espoir Muhinuka, a human rights activist, warned of the ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have seized a strategic eastern town near the provincial capital Goma in Democratic Republic of ...

Brazzaville, have formulated "a timetable and road map" for how President Xi Jinping's US$50 billion funding commitment will ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Some 102 men were executed ... a resident of the eastern city of Goma. Espoir Muhinuka, a human rights activist, warned of the possibility of extrajudicial executions ...

President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has urged Congolese authorities to negotiate with a violent rebel group that has seized key ...

The geography of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the most diverse in Africa, featuring dense rainforests, vast savannas, mountains, rivers, and lakes.

While the Nile is the longest and probably the most famous river in Africa ... of the Congo—are on its banks, making them the world’s closest capital cities after Vatican City and Rome.

Expectations that a deal would be signed had raised hopes of an end to a standoff that has further destabilised eastern Congo and fanned fears of a broader conflict in Africa's Great Lakes region ...