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

Congo’s president says he is going to launch a unity government as violence spreads across the country’s east and pressure ...

An estimated 300,000 children globally were expected to lose access to a nutrient-dense peanut butter that’s specially ...

KINSHASA, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo has freed an opposition leader ... on charges including contempt of the head of state. The one-time vice president of parliament and ...

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Conrad’s 1899 novella was a searing critique of European colonialism, but especially the form practiced in the misnamed Congo Free State. King Leopold II of Belgium ...

The U.S. and the U.N. sanctioned M23 years ago. M23’s “aggression has undermined the territorial integrity of (Congo),” the U.S. State Department statement said. “With Rwanda’s support ...

Asylum seekers are being bounced back into Croatia by an EU regulation insisting they register where they entered the Schengen zone - only for the vast majority to be denied international protection.

KINSHASA - Democratic Republic of Congo has freed an opposition leader ... ending his imprisonment on charges including contempt of the head of state. The one-time vice president of parliament ...

On Saturday, eight of the soldiers who were killed in the crossfire between M23 rebels and DRC army forces were laid to rest ...

Staff sergeant Molahlehi Molahlehi was described as a leader who took pride in the service. On Sunday, loved ones and ...

At one point, it was “The Congo Free State”, a territory established in the 1880s through agreements with local rulers by a group of European investors led by Leopold II, King of the Belgians.