Virtually all banks are closed. Currency shortages abound. Staples prices have jumped. Now residents are finding themselves ...

The mission to bring peace to eastern Congo, however, is far from accomplished. The recent past is littered with broken ...

Democratic Republic of Congo has launched a bid to strip former President Joseph Kabila of immunity so he can face trial on ...

The International Committee of the Red Cross says it is helping transfer hundreds of Congolese soldiers and police officers ...

In this particular case, the ICRC was approached by several actors – notably the DRC’s ministry of defence and veterans, ...

The April 2025 flooding disaster in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, wasn’t just about intense ...

In an escalation of a long-running conflict rooted in the spillover of Rwanda's 1994 genocide and the struggle over Congo's vast mineral resources, Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seized Goma, eastern ...

Dozens of people are dead and over half of the city's 26 districts were affected by flooding after torrential rains struck ...

The soldiers were among those defeated and surrounded by M23 fighters during the fall of Goma in January 2025. While some ...

On 23 April, delegations from Kinshasa and rebel group M23’s political affiliate, Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC), declared their ...

The April 23 joint announcement by the Congolese government and the AFC/M23 rebellion, under the aegis of Qatar, “constitutes an important - even decisive - step towards lasting peace” in the east of ...

Major voices of the conclave. Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, 65, the outspoken archbishop of Kinshasa, has long championed ...