Nov 19 (Reuters) - Congo has opened an investigation into ... the culture ministry said on Tuesday. Lumumba, the Central African country's first democratically elected prime minister after ...

Congo’s government has accused the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group of “ethnic cleansing” in the central African nation’s east ...

A mountain collapse in DR Congo’s Katanga region revealed vast copper reserves, sparking debates about resource exploitation ...

East African heads of state have made another push for peace in eastern Congo but its prospects remained bleak following a ...

If you live in the United States, you're probably used to the idea of ethnic diversity — which is considered to be one the ...

The Congo Basin's tropical forests, known as the "planet's second lung" behind the Amazon, are shrinking by one to five percent a year due to illegal logging and mining, a study said.

More than 44 million people go to the polls today in the Democratic Republic of Congo in an election that analysts say could have "deep implications" for the region. Voters in Africa's fourth most ...

In recent weeks, Congo has reported about 200 to 300 lab ... Health experts are also frustrated by the low number of vaccine doses the central African nation has received — 265,000 — and ...

DR Congo, a central African country, is the world's main source of cobalt, a key component of the lithium-ion batteries used in mobile phones, electric vehicles and many models of e-cigarette.

spreading across the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), most of Congo-Brazzaville, the southeastern reaches of Cameroon, southern Central African Republic (CAR), Gabon and Equatorial Guinea - ...