The economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - a nation endowed with vast natural resource wealth - continues to perform poorly. Systemic corruption since independence in 1960, combined ...

With a land area of 905,000 square miles (2.34 million square kilometers), it’s often compared to Europe in size and has a ...

The human rights situation across the Democratic Republic of Congo remains dire, with internal conflicts and poor governance contributing to a severe food crisis and the internal displacement of 5 ...

The second largest country in Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo hosts one of the world’s most complex and long-standing humanitarian crises, mostly centered in the east. Despite its vast human ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) released 1685 mostly ill inmates from the country’s largest prison on Sunday amid ongoing efforts to reduce overcrowding at the facility. The release from ...

Lack of testing and delays in getting the results have made curbing the virus's spread harder. A video circulating online shows the boat tilting to one side and then sinking just before it arrived ...

A military court in Democratic Republic of Congo, one of Africa's largest countries, has convicted three Americans and dozens of others of taking part in a coup attempt and imposed "the harshest ...

In a prestigious ceremony held at Leica headquarters in Wetzlar, Germany on October 10, Italian-born photographer Davide ...

Mongabay created the Environmental Reporting Fellowship in French to build the capacity of environmental journalists from ...

Years of conflict in eastern Congo have created a dire mental health crisis GOMA, Congo -- For Nelly Shukuru, there was no way out. The fighting that forced her from her home, the squalid ...

DAKAR, Oct 14 (Reuters) - The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has cancelled a licensing round for 27 oil blocks, originally launched in 2022 to tap into the nation's oil and gas potential ...

By Elian Peltier Reporting from Abidjan, Ivory Coast More than 700 inmates were released from the largest prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country’s authorities said on Saturday ...