Since January, the M23 rebel movement has seized Goma and Bukavu — two key cities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) — and since set up to govern for the long term in the regions under its ...

USAID staffer Kenneth Bledsoe and his family had to be evacuated to safety from the Congo -- only to return home to find Elon Musk leading the dismantling of the agency.

Few relationships are as fraught with complexity and moral ambiguity as those between the United States and the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

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

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

The current fighting is the result of a decision by Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi to incite ethnic violence and to support groups that perpetrated the Rwanda genocide.

Belgium's Princess Astrid visited Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority with a business delegation. The visit saw JNPA sign a pact with APEC-Antwerp for a port training centre, aiming to enhance maritime ...

When global powers chant never again after atrocities, we must ask: do they truly mean repentance, or do they mean never again without profit? Belgium's colonial strategy had one objective: relentless ...

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

Cyclists, organisers and fans tell the BBC there were no security issues on the Tour du Rwanda, despite fighting across the ...

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

GOMA, Congo — Rwanda-backed rebels captured a key eastern Congo city a month ago Friday. Residents in Goma, which was once a critical trade and humanitarian hub, say they are struggling on ...