October 30, 1974 is a legendary date in Congolese history. On that day, Muhammad Ali faced off against George Foreman in a ...

as the rebels made fresh gains in eastern DR Congo. The largely ethnic Tutsi M23 rebel militia has seized swathes of the Democratic Republic of Congo's troubled east since 2021, displacing ...

Since March 2022, 3.3 million people have been displaced across the provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri alone, amid an appalling spike in human rights abuses against civilian populations. A ...

So how unsafe is it to fly in the DR Congo and is it any worse than other parts of world? Data from the Aviation Safety Network, which monitors and collates information about airline safety ...

Foreign mining firms strongly opposed the law, saying their operations in DR Congo would stop being profitable. Several chief executives flew to the Congolese capital Kinshasa this week in the ...

The French independent is the only oil producer in DR Congo. It is understood that Brisbane-based Conjugate Energy was chasing promising blocks 1 and 2 in DR Congo’s sector of Lake Albert ...

Rwanda-backed rebels have made inroads in the eastern DR Congo, local sources told AFP on Thursday, while the Congolese army accused Rwanda of abusing a ceasefire deal to seize territory.

The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has announced plans for a 600 MW solar park for Menkao in the municipality of Maluku, 25km east of the capital, Kinshasa. The project will be the ...

South Africa took third place at the Africa Cup of Nations finals in the Ivory Coast when they edged the Democratic Republic of Congo 6-5 on penalties after a goalless draw at the Felix Houphouet ...

GOMA, DR CONGO: The Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicentre of an mpox epidemic, launched a vaccination campaign against the virus on Saturday (Oct 5) in the eastern city of Goma, AFP ...

The RVF, the agency overseeing DR Congo's waterways, sounded the alarm in late December. It warned that heavy rains would cause "exceptional flooding" around the Kinshasa area. By this point ...