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 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 ...

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

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

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Hundreds of Congolese soldiers and police officers, along with their families, were transferred from the rebel-controlled town of Goma in eastern Congo to the capital Kinshasa, the ...

Four Americans pleaded not guilty to criminal charges in a federal court in Utah after authorities said they conspired to ...

Every morning the Congolese city of Bukavu, now under the control of the Rwanda-backed M23 movement, counts its dead.

In early April, extreme rainfall and flooding in and around Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killed at least 33 people. Such catastrophic rainfall events are predicted to ...

The vilest scramble for loot that has ever disfigured the history of human conscience” is how Joseph Conrad described colonial-era concessions granted to private companies for Congo’s natural ...

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but ...