The capital, Kinshasa, lies on the Congo River, Africa's second-longest at 4,700 kilometres (2,900 miles). DRC borders on nine countries, including other unstable states such as the Central African ...

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, specifically in Kinshasa, severe flooding in early April claimed dozens of lives. In response, Congolese authorities have initiated a demolition campaign ...

A mother watched in despair as an excavator demolished her Kinshasa home ... which sits on the banks of the mighty Congo River, killed dozens of people early last month. Authorities have begun ...

the country's former electoral chief and now leader of the Congo River Alliance, the M23's political wing, has publicly vowed to "liberate the entire country," including the capital, Kinshasa.

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Imagine the gene that causes Huntington’s disease (HD) as a vast river. At its source is the CAG repeat – a genetic letter code that dictates how the river will flow. As the river moves downstream, it ...

This complex operation, which crosses frontlines and spans close to 2,000 kilometres, is being conducted at the request of the DRC government, MONUSCO, and the Congo River Alliance/M23 Movement. Over ...

Viewers in the Democratic Republic of Congo gathered around their TV in Kinshasa to cheer for the possibility of an African pope. Patience Mudinda and her family were watching television in their ...

Congo and Rwanda have submitted a draft peace proposal as part of a process aimed at ending the fighting in eastern Congo and attracting billions of dollars in Western investment, according to the ...

When Mobutu fled Kinshasa, the Kabila-Kagame coalition won the First Congo War in 1997. Kabila was installed as president of Zaire and changed the country’s name back to The Democratic Republic ...

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, the archbishop of Kinshasa, Congo, said he is in Rome to elect a pope for the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. “I am not here for the Congo, I am not here for ...