A military vehicle carries a gold-capped tooth belonging to DRC independence hero Patrice Lumumba to a memorial built in his ...

Fighting for control of the Democratic Republic of Congo's mineral wealth has killed millions. Trump wants to end it, and ...

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 ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

The number of mpox cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo continues to rise. According to the World Health Organization, Congo has over 26,000 suspected cases - over 80% of the world's total.

In early 2025, fighting between Congolese security forces and militant groups led by M23 escalated rapidly, culminating in M23’s capture of Goma, the regional hub of the Eastern Democratic Republic of ...

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During a White House ceremony on Friday marking a peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, ...

She said more than two-thirds of the world’s cobalt is mined in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. “DRC really depends on the tax revenues that are associated with mining.

Representative Sheila Cherfilus McCormick (D-FL) issued a statement praising the recent peace agreement between the ...

About 1 a.m. on May 19, 2024, "a large bus with armed men" pulled up to a hotel in southwest Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, where Christian Malanga was staying, court documents say.