Tshisekedi granted a pardon to the Americans, just two days before a visit by President Donald Trump’s senior advisor Massad Boulos.

The leader of a rebel alliance that has seized swathes of east Congo told Reuters on Thursday that insurgents were not bound by a ceasefire call from Congo and Rwanda's presidents and cast any ...

Southern and Eastern African countries have expanded a team of former heads of state overseeing efforts to resolve the conflict in eastern Congo.

"Welcome to Soweto," reads the name of a small store, with the flags of South Africa and DR Congo either side of the phrase .

The three Americans convicted on charges of participating in a botched coup attempt in Congo last year have been repatriated to the United States days after the country ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) suffers ongoing violence while the international community remains silent. The nation faces destruction from foreign exploitation and invasions, but African ...

The memoirs of the Central African revolutionary Andrée Blouin tell the story of a woman who witnessed firsthand the ecstatic ...

US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday visited the high-security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who ...

Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of State announced late Tuesday that President Trump's new senior advisor for Africa, Massad Boulos, will travel to Congo and three other African countries ...

Ruth Maclean is the West Africa bureau chief for The Times, covering 25 countries including Nigeria, Congo, the countries in the Sahel region as well as Central Africa. More about Ruth Maclean ...