The political system in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is paralyzed due the manipulation of the electoral process by political elites, and is heavily influenced by a long-running conflict ...

An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks, health experts say. The interval between ...

Kinshasa, DRC: An unknown illness has killed more than 50 people in the north-west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to doctors on the ground and the World Health Organisation.

An unknown disease has killed more than 50 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to doctors. The World Health Organisation's (WHO) Africa office said the first outbreak was ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks, health experts say.

More than 50 people in the north-western of the Democratic Republic of Congo have died of an unidentified illness. The outbreak began on January 21, with 419 cases having been recorded since.

Locals at a village in the embattled North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are appealing for prayers after approximately 70 bodies were found inside a church building in ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

In 1960, Patrice Lumumba became the prime minister of newly independent Congo. His close ally Andrée Blouin describes how Belgium and the US conspired to oust Lumumba and impose Mobutu’s kleptocratic ...

On one side of the lake, lovers glide on canoes, friends ride jet-skis and families pose for pictures in the hazy sunset. On the other side, less than two miles away, dead bodies washed ashore ...

It is high time the South African National Defence Forces' (SANDF) holed up in a UN base camp in DR Congo's North Kivu Province returned home since they have no business in AFC/M23 rebel-held ...