Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 29, No. 93/94, State Failure in the Congo: Perceptions & Realities (Le Congo entre Crise et Régenération) (Sep. - Dec., 2002), pp. 411-430 (20 pages) ...

(Reuters) - Congo's former President Joseph Kabila has initiated talks with opposition politicians about the country's political future as Rwanda-backed rebels seize territory in the east ...

The First Congo War (1996–1997 ... and refrain from efforts to affect one another’s political systems. Despite the agreement and initial promise of a seventy-two-hour ceasefire ahead of ...

KINSHASA, March 22 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will begin political consultations on Monday to form a government of national unity amid a deepening security crisis ...

FILE PHOTO: Democratic Republic of Congo's outgoing President Joseph Kabila sits next to his successor Felix Tshisekedi during an inauguration ceremony in Kinshasa ...

Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, one of Kabila's political party leaders, told Reuters that while it would be "good" to exclude Tshisekedi from talks about Congo's political future, it was important to ...

By Ruth Maclean Reporting from Dakar, Senegal Three American citizens who were sentenced to death over a failed coup attempt in the Democratic Republic of Congo have had their sentences commuted ...