A single image captures the grim task facing those who needed to find space for the dead after a spasm of violence in Central ...

For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

Nearly three thousand people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to ...

C orneille nangaa sits in an armchair in a five-star-hotel in Goma, the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

Protesters have attacked missions in the capital of the African country as anger grows about the advance of the M23 rebel ...

Independence prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, fiercely patriotic and a radical Pan-African ... Congo. On the face of it, Rwanda is right – it is up to the Congolese government and its people ...

The U.N. voices concern over alleged atrocities as Rwandan-backed rebels reportedly advance after seizing the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

But in Africa, its efforts to exert influence have been plagued by missteps over the past decade. In Democratic Republic of Congo this week ... was bureau chief for West & Central Africa.

Fighting has escalated sharply in recent weeks in eastern Congo, where rebels have seized key towns and are closing in on the ...

Rwanda-backed rebels claimed they captured eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma, early Monday, as the United Nations described a “mass panic” among its 2 million people and Congo’s ...