The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) owes much of its global renown to its music, which reflects its cultural diversity ...

Women artists have consistently set groundbreaking records on Billboard’s charts over the first quarter of the 21st century. Their dominance on the Billboard 200 albums chart and the Billboard ...

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 ...

8 letter to Trump, Félix Tshisekedi, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, offered mining opportunities for the U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund, an entity Trump had launched a few days earlier.

Pop music fans have been divided after Billboard published a list of the biggest female artists of the 21st century. The list was filled with a number of surprising entries, from one-hit-wonders ...

The M23 militia is ruling over a vast stretch of territory in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, threatening the sovereignty of the biggest country in sub-Saharan Africa.

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have pushed deeper into the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), capturing the town of Walikale despite growing international calls for a ceasefire. The rebels ...

Billboard’s Top Women Artists of the 21st Century chart reflects performance on weekly charts dated Jan. 1, 2000, through Dec. 28, 2024. (Titles released prior to mid-1999, including holiday ...

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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.

The ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has recently reached a turning point, with the United Nations officially acknowledging the role of the Rwandan army and the M23 rebel ...

Congo and Rwanda reaffirmed their commitment to an immediate ceasefire, but the joint statement does not specify on how it would be implemented. DR Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi met with ...