The burden that Patrice Lumumba, prime minister of the Republic of the Congo, assumed was an awesome one. On his young, slim ...

United Nations — A senior U.N. official in the Democratic Republic of the Congo said Monday that fighting ... by the rebels to have captured the city of Goma. "Fighting is still very much ...

An African country that's the 11th largest in the world also shares its border with a staggering nine other countries.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Alain Mabanckou’s exuberant new novel, like his International Booker Prize-longlisted Black Moses (2015 ...

Col. Deo Akiiki, deputy spokesman for the Ugandan military, told the AP there had been no new deployments of soldiers to Congo in recent weeks. In Goma, where Congolese authorities have said over ...

Privately-owned Trident Energy has wrapped up a trio of linked transactions with supermajors that gives it operatorship of three legacy oil and gas fields offshore Congo-Brazzaville and boosts its ...