In his first interview since an armed group backed by Rwanda seized swaths of his country’s territory this year, Felix Tshisekedi, the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, offered the ...

Whether or not there is a ‘shift’ in the forthcoming elections in DRC, the country has clearly entered the pre-electoral campaign period. As presidential candidates rarely fail to do, Félix-Antoine ...

Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi accused former leader Joseph Kabila of backing a U.S.-sanctioned coalition of rebel groups during an interview with a private radio station on Tuesday.

Tshisekedi's government invited the U.S. and EU to purchase minerals directly from the DRC, bypassing Rwanda-backed M23 fighters. There was no request for U.S. troops to intervene in the conflict.

The danger, as always, is hubris. As the Congolese by nature are attracted to nationalist sentiment and inclined to live life in exhilarating expectation of the future, all heads of state, from Mobutu ...

Speaking in an interview with 7sur7 Congo on February 24, Ferdinand Kambere, the deputy permanent secretary of the People’s Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD), dismissed Tshisekedi ...

Tshisekedi is also likely to be boosted by the initial rollout of a $1.6bn plan to build roads, schools and hospitals, as well as the introduction of free education and healthcare for some Congolese.

Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi speaks during a news conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris on April 30. (AP) DAKAR, Senegal, Aug 7, (AP): Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi accused former leader ...

Joe Wilson, a member of the US House of Representatives, has called on Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi to take meaningful steps toward peace in eastern DR Congo, emphasizing the need to ...

Tshisekedi rejected Kagame's statements, saying that Mukwege was a "figure of national pride" as the country's only Nobel laureate and that the 65-year-old had "all of our support".