Patrice Lumumba became the prime minister of newly independent Congo. His close ally Andrée Blouin describes how Belgium and ...

Representatives of Congo's powerful Catholic church met on Wednesday with a rebel leader whose Rwandan-backed M23 forces last ...

Creating sustainable peace in Congo requires giving justice to the victims of war crimes and preventing the illicit trade in ...

Donald Trump mocked pop star Taylor Swift after the singer was booed Sunday at the Super Bowl during the Kansas City Chiefs defeat to the Philadelphia Eagles."The only one that had a tougher night ...

A rampaging rebel group has claimed the capture of another mining town in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of ...

The CFA franc (Franc des Colonies Francais d’Afrique) was introduced in 1945, well before France’s decolonization in the late 1950s, as a way for France to control the economies of its African ...

Analysts say the deadly march by Rwanda-backed rebels across eastern Congo could widen into a regional conflict drawing in ...

International aid and development work funded by the U.S. government has almost entirely come to a halt, leaders in ...

Through practicing Ubuntu, or solidarity, we have the ability to build a future that is inclusive and supports the interests of everyone. Solidarity serves as the cornerstone of our collective unity, ...

The Trump appointee also agreed to block an order giving overseas USAID workers just 30 days to move back to the U.S. on ...

Thousands of families have been displaced by violence in eastern Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels seized the key city of ...