He took over leadership of the country in 2001 at the age of just 29, after his father and former coup leader, President ...

The International Committee of the Red Cross says it is helping transfer hundreds of Congolese soldiers and police officers ...

Democratic Republic of Congo has launched a bid to strip former President Joseph Kabila of immunity so he can face trial on ...

The mission to bring peace to eastern Congo, however, is far from accomplished. The recent past is littered with broken ...

In this particular case, the ICRC was approached by several actors – notably the DRC’s ministry of defence and veterans, ...

Belgium is open to deeper involvement in Democratic Republic of Congo's minerals sector, its foreign minister said on a visit ...

In an escalation of a long-running conflict rooted in the spillover of Rwanda's 1994 genocide and the struggle over Congo's vast mineral resources, Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seized Goma, eastern ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Hundreds of Congolese soldiers and police officers, along with their families, were transferred from the rebel-controlled town of Goma in eastern Congo to the capital Kinshasa, the ...

The ICRC will escort disarmed soldiers, police, and their families from the Monusco peacekeeping base to the Congolese ...

On 30 April 2025, following a request to act as a neutral intermediary, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is accompanying a series of convoys from Goma to Kinshasa transporting ...

If the next pope is from sub-Saharan Africa, he would be the first in Catholic Church history. Catholic Africans think it is ...

Imagine a man in a tailored suit, sweating profusely as he chases a bus that's long since pulled out of the station. He waves frantically, shouting at the passengers inside—particularly one sitting ...