DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas parades 3 Israeli hostages before crowd of hundreds in Gaza ahead of release.

The seizure by M23 rebels of vast tracts of land in the mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has triggered a ...

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

Refugees have helped shaped the region "in a way that we could never have anticipated before," said Dottie Gallagher, ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of ...

In the two Congos, there's a cultural movement by the Society of Ambience-Makers and Elegant People (Sape), known as "sapeurs", who blend fashion, culture and social resistance. Though it was rooted ...

Experts are concerned about the Clade 1 mpox virus that has been spreading quickly in west and central Africa since 2023.

Congolese soldiers who fled from the battle with the AFC/M23 rebels in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo have praised the hospitality they have received in Rwanda.

The South African National Defence Force confirmed on 27 January that three more soldiers had been killed in fighting near ...

One day after the U.S. Postal Service said in a notice that it would stop accepting inbound parcels from the China and Hong ...

The M23 captured Goma, a city of nearly two million people, last week after a lightning advance in DR Congo's eastern region.