The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

This month marks 140 years since Western powers sidelined Africans and carved up ‘ownership’ of the continent.

Their role in technology and the global economy has made countries with rare earths a key focus in geopolitical discussions.

DRC hopes opening its vast mine fields to the Western world will pave way to long lasting peace while stemming support to ...

The BBC joins a mission aboard the Léon Thévenin to repair an undersea fibre optic cable.

Congo became a "pilot country" in the massive infrastructure project in the wake of Sassou's 2016 state visit to China. Two years later, during the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation ... and put his ...

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...

Nearly half of those who died did so within hours after they felt sick, and health officials still do not know the cause or ...

The latest disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo began on Jan. 21, with 419 cases recorded and 53 deaths. The ...

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The outbreak has been traced, tentatively, to three children who ate a bat, the W.H.O. said, and known threats like Ebola and ...