Unidentified illnesses have killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks. Some 419 cases and 53 deaths have been recorded across outbreaks in two distant villages in ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The presidents of Congo and neighboring Rwanda met Tuesday in Qatar for their first direct talks since Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seized two major cities in mineral-rich ...

The army of the Democratic Republic of Congo has accused Rwanda of dressing up prisoners in military uniforms in an effort to pass them off as newly-captured rebels linked to the Rwandan genocide.

The World Health Organization's head of emergencies, Mike Ryan, said Friday that more than 60 unexplained deaths in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo were likely due to "some kind of ...

often in manually carved tunnels that frequently collapsed and buried the young miners alive. Since then, global appetite for Congo’s cobalt has grown sharply, mostly driven by a dramatic ...

Congo’s dark history spans centuries and lingers ... and the idea of overcoming adversity.” One young woman in particular stood out. Sandra, a 21-year-old who had been infected with HIV ...