Congolese authorities say at least 50 people were killed in weekend attacks in the country's conflict-hit east where ...

A government statement on Saturday night said 52 people had been killed in and around Goma, though the figure could not be independently verified. The government statement blamed M23. M23 spokesperson ...

Thousands of children have been subjected to rape and sexual violence in the conflict-battered eastern Congo over the course ...

Three American citizens jailed over a failed coup attempt in Democratic Republic of Congo were handed over to U.S. custody on ...

While the Democratic Republic of Congo reels from a new rebel offensive in the east, its capital in the west, Kinshasa, ...

DR Congo has 60 per cent of the world’s coltan. The government is 1,600 kilometres away, and most of the mineral wealth is stolen. The other reason is, just across the DRC’s eastern border is ...

The Congo Basin forms part of a global trio of tropical rainforests - along with the Amazon and Borneo-Mekong regions - which together account for 80% of the world’s remaining tropical forests ...

Meanwhile, both Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are home to over 200 languages. In Cameroon, Bulu, Beti and Pidgin are most popular, while Lingala, Swahili and Luba are spoken the ...

In an interview, Congo's foreign minister, Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, said the joint Congolese-Ugandan operations against the Allied Democratic Forces, an Islamic State affiliate, were going well.

Tin prices hit two-week highs in London on Friday as speculators bet that an earthquake that rocked major producer Myanmar could delay a restart of production in its main mining region.

Rwanda has rejected charges, including by the Congolese government and U.N experts, that it backs M23 in eastern Congo, a region that is now one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises with ...