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During a visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo, a Globe reporter learned how the billionaire is bringing broadband to ...
Balingene Kibetsi, a woman in her 60s with a child strapped to her back, stood beside the ruins of her wooden house in the small town of Sake, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Nevertheless, over the course of the previous year, the pair had fashioned themselves into two of the least likely soldiers ...
For months, the capital of Tanganyika, a province bordering South Kivu, feared the arrival of M23 rebels and their Rwandan ...
While leaders hail a recent peace deal between Rwanda and the DR Congo as a diplomatic breakthrough, observers say deep-rooted tensions and unresolved grievances remain.
Kibetsi is one of nearly a million Congolese who have returned to their homes since the M23 rebel group — backed by Rwanda ...
Talks between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group are ‘moving in the right ...
Mass spectrometry unlocks the hidden story of three corroded coins, revealing Ibo’s surprising role in early Indian Ocean ...
Three envoys went to Congo with a quid pro quo offer from Washington. The venture ended with them fleeing the country two ...
Pope Francis recognized Floribert Bwana Kositi, a customs officer killed in 2007 for refusing a bribe, as a martyr of the ...
The remains of a Congolese customs worker who was killed for resisting a bribe and beatified by the Vatican have been ...
Learn about sources of continued violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and how the United Nations, African Union, and neighboring countries are struggling to curtail it.