More than just music, the event became a case study in how nations of the Global South can leverage culture as a tool of soft ...

Congo and Rwanda vowed to come up with a draft peace deal by May 2 and refrain from providing military support to armed ...

Four Americans pleaded not guilty to criminal charges in a federal court in Utah after authorities said they conspired to ...

Top contenders include Ghana's Cardinal Turkson and Congo's Cardinal Ambongo, although insiders say none is a clear ...

Every morning the Congolese city of Bukavu, now under the control of the Rwanda-backed M23 movement, counts its dead.

In early April, extreme rainfall and flooding in and around Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killed at least 33 people. Such catastrophic rainfall events are predicted to ...

Africans are hoping one of their own could become the first Black pope in modern history and build on Francis's legacy of ...

The vilest scramble for loot that has ever disfigured the history of human conscience” is how Joseph Conrad described colonial-era concessions granted to private companies for Congo’s natural ...

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but ...

Father Camille Esika, rector of Notre Dame du Congo Parish in Kinshasa, fondly remembered Pope Francis' 2023 visit to the ...

Ahead of the conclave to select the next pope, names circulating include cardinals Bo of Myanmar, Tagle of the Philippines ...

Trump and VP Vance pause near Oval Office after honoring 2025 College Football champs Ohio State at White House.