Syracuse, NY -- Kambale Syaghuswa was in high school in Congo when the violence became so dire he had to flee. Amid the chaos, he says, he didn’t know precisely which tribe was trying to kill him. In ...

A cease-fire deal between rival tribes in the northeast of Congo takes effect Friday. The fighting between the Lendu and Hema tribes, which have been battling for control of the city of Bunia, has ...

Grace Nkundabantu says she still remembers the banging on the door. It was 1996 and her country, the Democratic Republic of Congo, was embroiled in a devastating civil war that would claim thousands ...

(Zenger News) – A Congolese Pygmy hunter–gatherer tribe has seen its members succumb to alcoholism as logging companies and conservation groups abuse and coerce them into relinquishing their ...

Savannah native Janiqwa Nganga was recently initiated as Chief and Queen of the African Diaspora for the Bateke Tribe of the Congo. Nganga sees her new role as a bridge connecting the African diaspora ...

Streaming into Leopoldville last week, the delegates to the Congo’s first Parliament were a strange-looking lot. Some had the sharply pointed heads of a tribe that practices infant skull bandaging.

Hailing from Democratic Republic of Congo, Kwenders immigrated to Canada with his mother as a teenager, bringing a love of music and celebration with him. After settling in Montreal, Kwenders joined ...

A superstar in Africa, she sang in the language of her tribe and often addressed social concerns, insisting on women’s strength and decrying abuse. By Jon Pareles Tshala Muana, a Congolese singer who ...