The Congolese government and opposing rebel movements have agreed to a ceasefire. It comes at a time when tensions have reached a boiling point following reports that former President Joseph Kabila ...

The Congolese government and opposed rebel movements have agreed to a ceasefire. This comes at a time when tensions had reached a boiling point following reports that former President Joseph Kabila ...

The April 23 joint announcement by the Congolese government and the AFC/M23 rebellion, under the aegis of Qatar, “constitutes an important - even decisive - step towards lasting peace” in the east of ...

It's very possible the next pope could be from Africa, where the Catholic Church continues to add millions of members.

Top contenders include Ghana's Cardinal Turkson and Congo's Cardinal Ambongo, although insiders say none is a clear ...

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 ...

Africans are hoping one of their own could become the first Black pope in modern history and build on Francis's legacy of ...

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 ...

AIR Tanzania Co. Ltd (ATCL) has announced the launch of direct flights between Dar es Salaam and Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), marking a significant expansion of its African flight ...

Five new stakes were created in Brazil, DR Congo, Montana, Philippines and Virginia; 13 stakes were reorganized in Arizona, ...