Each weekend, dancers stoked on music and alcohol sway to the old hits on the decrepit rooftop terrace of Kinshasa's ...

It is a war for control over some of the world’s richest mineral reserves and the violence is heightened by long-standing ...

Beginning in the late 1700s, enslaved Africans gathered on Sundays at Congo Square in New Orleans. It became one of the most important cultural sites in American music history, a place where dancing, ...

AFC/M23 says attack is a warning to government Statement claims Congo no longer has air superiority Rebels staged lightning offensive in east Congo last year No immediate comment from government or ...

DAKAR, Feb 2 (Reuters) - The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo will send its first team to monitor a ceasefire between Congo’s government and the AFC/M23 rebel group in the coming days, ...

Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo – In cities in the mineral-rich eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), home to some of the world’s largest cobalt and copper reserves, eyes are on the ...

President Tshisekedi’s Trip to Washington Minerals Summit Chance to Revive Accords Months later, the deal has delivered little more than paper promises, with fighting continuing and civilians bearing ...

More than 200 people have been killed in a collapse at the Rubaya coltan mine in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to a spokesperson for the rebel-appointed governor of the ...

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In January, high-level policymakers came together to discuss the implementation of the recent Belém Call to Action for the Congo Basin Forests, a $2.5 billion pledge to conserve the world’s ...

Sources say the mine, currently under rebel control, has been poorly maintained More than 200 people have been killed in a mine collapse in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, rebel authorities have ...

More than 200 people have been killed in a mine collapse in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, rebel authorities have said. The mine, in the town of Rubaya, gave way on Wednesday due to heavy rains ...