the intensifying mpox outbreak places additional strain on the Democratic Republic of Congo and surrounding African nations; heightened security tensions spur the United States, keeping nuclear ...

FILE - 2 year old Emile Miango, who has mpox, lies in a hospital, in Kamituga, South Kivu province, Sept. 4, 2024, which is the epicenter of the world’s latest outbreak of the disease in eastern Congo ...

A military helicopter crashed on Wednesday in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing the pilot, co-pilot, and a technician, all of whom were foreign nationals.

According to military sources on the ground, the helicopter of the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) crashed around 11 a.m., local time, on the runway of Ndolo Airport, the second airport in ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — The end of one of the world’s deadliest and yet most shadowy wars is as difficult to predict as the end of the large peacekeeping force meant to contain it. Congo ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The United Nations peacekeepers in Congo were meant to leave the country in December, but soaring violence ...

Congo desperately wants stability in its mineral-rich east, of intense interest to the global economy. But political friction means the government wants the longtime United Nations peacekeeping ...

France is deeply concerned by the fighting that has resumed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo between the territories of Rutshuru and Walikale, in particular in Kalembe.

KINSHASA, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has announced plans to establish a commission to explore revisions to the country's constitution, potentially ...

Bafana Bafana proved far too strong for Congo in their 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium on Friday, 11 October. Hugo Broos’s men won 5-0. Teboho ...

M23 rebels are accused of setting up a parallel administration in eastern DR Congo Uganda is backing M23 rebels fighting across its border in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, UN experts say ...

DR Congo has declared Rwanda's shooting of one of its fighter jets an "act of war", amid mounting tensions. Rwanda's government said it took "defensive measures" against a plane that had violated ...