Op-ed: The minerals of Lubumbashi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo's second-largest city, electrified the world, created ...

KINSHASA, Congo — Congo's current Ebola outbreak is the worst in the country's recorded history with 319 confirmed and probable cases, the health ministry said. The deadly virus has killed about 198 ...

If you are like me, everything you learned about Congo and the Congolese people as a young person, you learned from Tintin In the Congo. The graphic novel shows how Congolese musicians have spread ...

Authoritative books in English on the Congo are scarce, so this work by a leading Congolese academic is welcome. After reviewing the colonial period, the turbulent independence era, and Mobutu Sese ...

Goma, DRC - With its president murdered and half a dozen foreign armies scrambling for control of its natural wealth, Democratic Republic of Congo seems incapable of shaking off its tragic past.

Jason Stearns, a senior analyst with the International Crisis Group, talks with Renee Montagne about why elections in the Congo matter so much to African democracy. We turn now to Jason Stearns. He's ...

A major critical and popular success in Belgium, this sweeping history of Congo begins during the precolonial era and brings readers all the way up to the current era of warlords and civil war. Van ...

During the scramble for Africa at the end of the 19th century, a period when European powers competed relentlessly for control of African territory, an avaricious monarch, Leopold II of Belgium, ...