For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

In the late 1950s Pan-African activist Andrée Blouin contributed to Sékou Touré’s campaign for independence in Guinea, then ...

The African political leader’s autobiography, My Country, Africa, also offers a larger story of empire, oppression, and ...

Angola is set to host negotiations next Tuesday in an attempt to end hostilities between Kinshasa and the M23, which have ...

World War II had a profound impact on every continent, reshaping societies, economies, and global politics. While much of the historical narrative fo ...

Persistent governance failures, corruption, and empty promises have destabilized eastern DR Congo for decades and the government in Kinshasa has not only failed to dismantle the "more than 200 armed ...

M23 fighters, backed by Rwanda, continue to advance into eastern DR Congo. While the rebels are outnumbered by the Congolese army, DW examines whether the military has the capacity to respond ...

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

ITS soldiers are underpaid and underarmed. Its ranks are riddled with factions pursuing their own interests. And successive ...

MONUSCO, the U.N. peacekeeping force in the DRC, said the reported killings were under investigation but remained unverified.

More than 7,000 people have been killed in eastern Congo since January ... in Brussels, a Belgian think tank. "Numerous reports have highlighted the disappearance of funds intended for soldiers ...