Mine shafts snake under the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's mountains, but instead of the Congolese government their ...

USAID staffer Kenneth Bledsoe and his family had to be evacuated to safety from the Congo -- only to return home to find Elon Musk leading the dismantling of the agency.

African leaders have announced the withdrawal of thousands of troops from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi, who were sent to fight insurgents in mineral-rich eastern Congo, where M23 rebels have ...

Aid cuts by the United States are hurting Africa’s capacity to respond to disease outbreaks, the head of the continent’s ...

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

As the world continues to pray for him throughout his prolonged hospitalization, the 88-year-old Pontiff has asked people to remember to pray for those suffering around the world.

A boat has capsized in southwestern Congo and killed 25 people, many of them soccer players, authorities said Monday. The players were returning from a match in Mushie city ...

Fighting by Islamic State and other terrorist groups over minerals and power has led to widespread killings and rape in the DRC. Disease, child slavery and Christian persecution stalk the population.

In the late 1950s Pan-African activist Andrée Blouin contributed to Sékou Touré’s campaign for independence in Guinea, then ...

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...

Restore Local aims to expand community-driven solutions for land restoration, jobs, and climate resilience in Kenya, and four ...

Threats of territorial conquest are once again becoming a central part of geopolitics, driven by a new phase of great-power ...