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Dare we hope that, at long last, there is a possibility of real, sustainable, lasting peace in DR Congo (and thus the wider Great Lakes Region)? The foreign ministers of DR Congo and Rwanda hosted by ...
“Foreman’s setbacks after losing the title took him back to the drawing board that surprised the world when he recaptured the ...
Congo and Rwanda vowed to come up with a draft peace deal by May 2 and refrain from providing military support to armed ...
Four Americans pleaded not guilty to criminal charges in a federal court in Utah after authorities said they conspired to ...
Top contenders include Ghana's Cardinal Turkson and Congo's Cardinal Ambongo, although insiders say none is a clear ...
Every morning the Congolese city of Bukavu, now under the control of the Rwanda-backed M23 movement, counts its dead.
In early April, extreme rainfall and flooding in and around Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killed at least 33 people. Such catastrophic rainfall events are predicted to ...
Father Camille Esika, rector of Notre Dame du Congo Parish in Congo's capital Kinshasa, fondly remembered Pope Francis' 2023 ...
The vilest scramble for loot that has ever disfigured the history of human conscience” is how Joseph Conrad described colonial-era concessions granted to private companies for Congo’s natural ...
Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but ...
Catholic bishops in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have expressed their “spiritual closeness and solidarity” with victims of the recent floods and landslides that struck the capital ...
Kinshasa, 11 April, 2025 / 11:40 pm (ACI Africa). Caritas in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has launched an appeal for humanitarian assistance for the victims of the April 5-6 flooding that ...