From election chief to rebel leader. Nangaa is the former head of Congo's electoral body who oversaw the 2018 presidential election won by President Félix Tshisekedi.

President Donald Trump participated in a visit with the foreign ministers of the Congo and Rwanda. The meeting came after the ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo wants a peace agreement with Rwanda-backed M23 rebels before a planned summit next month ...

Lassy Mbouity, leader of the opposition party Les Socialistes Congolais and a candidate in Congo’s March 2026 presidential election, was abducted last Sunday in Brazzaville by armed and masked ...

Catholic bishops and Protestant pastors in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) submitted what they call a “Social Pact for ...

Congo's leader commutes death sentences of 3 Americans convicted in failed coup attempt. ... He stood for elections in 2011 but was arrested and detained for several weeks.

As the election commission chair, he oversaw the heavily criticized vote that elected Tshisekedi and led the U.S. to sanction him in 2019 for undermining Congo’s democracy.

As the election commission chair, he oversaw the heavily criticized vote that elected Tshisekedi and led the U.S. to sanction him in 2019 for undermining Congo’s democracy.

Sultani Makenga, an ethnic Tutsi rebel leader sanctioned by both the U.S. and the U.N., ... — After Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took control of the biggest city in eastern Congo this week, ...

After Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took control of the biggest city in eastern Congo this week, the man who emerged from the shadows to assert his leadership was not the group's long-time military leader.