That takes some doing, since the Congo, as if to prove it can be more democratic than anybody, has no fewer than 221 political parties. At Luluabourg, 49 of them jumped on Tshombe’s bandwagon.

The planned return of former Democratic Republic of Congo president Joseph Kabila from self-imposed exile could shift political dynamics and complicate efforts to resolve escalating violence in ...

Back from the successful conference of rival Congo political leaders on the island of Madagascar, Albert Kalonji, the boss of South Kasai province, waved his favorite fetish stick and cried ...

WELL THAT WAS FAST: The Democratic Republic of the Congo has suspended a six-month $5 million contract it had recently signed with a new lobbying and PR firm started by Trump 2016 campaign alum ...

Congo, M23 Rebels Hold First Talks After Months of Conflict DOHA (Reuters) - Congo's government and M23 rebels last week held private talks in Qatar for the first time since the rebels conducted a ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is getting worse.

Congo President Meets US Lawmaker Amid Talk of Mineral Deal KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi has met U.S. lawmaker Ronny Jackson to discuss fighting ...

Donald Trump has been offered a minerals-for-security deal by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), providing access to materials needed by America’s tech industry in return for help to defeat ...

The political blocs of Southern and Eastern Africa have expanded the mediation team for negotiating an end to the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel offensive in eastern Congo, at a heads of state meeting on ...

Political pressure on Arsenal has been mounting for months. Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner, foreign minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has written to the club urging them to end the ...