Despite its diminutive size on the all-too-common world maps that use Mercator projection, Africa is the second-largest ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has overseen the signing by Congo and Rwanda of a pledge to work toward a peace deal that ...

Catholic groups and faith-based organizations are increasingly worried in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The rebels now occupy nearly all of North Kivu and parts of South Kivu—territories ...

Threatened by armed conflict, volcanic activity and rampant deforestation, Africa's oldest national park is turning to a new ...

In most emerging and least developed countries, decolonisation is not yet complete. It is “Not Yet Uhuru!” The economies of ...

Felix Tshisekedi of Congo had long said his country would not negotiate with the Rwanda-backed militia, making the joint agreement a rare bright spot in the conflict.

(Photo by Al Jazeera English / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED) The M23 rebel group, which seized control of large parts of North and South Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

The April 2025 flooding disaster in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, wasn’t just about intense ...

A Newsweek-created graphic shows the various travel advisories currently in place across Africa, including the no-go zones.

FILE - M23 rebels patrol the streets of Goma, Democratic Republic ... one of the world's largest humanitarian crises, with around 7 million people displaced. In a statement, Congo’s Ministry ...

GENEVA, April 11 — The UN condemned today the widespread rape of children in conflict-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where thousands were reportedly subjected to sexual violence in the ...