Patrice Lumumba became the prime minister of newly independent Congo. His close ally Andrée Blouin describes how Belgium and ...

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Rwanda is unfairly blamed for the crisis in eastern DR Congo, which is a result of internal governance failures and threats on Rwandan leaders, for which the Congolese government should be held ...

Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo’s largest city said Thursday they want to take their fight to the far-off capital, Kinshasa, while Congo’s president called for a massive military ...

Nangaa, who is not a Tutsi and who analysts say brings a more diverse, Congolese face to the group, told reporters of his plan to fight all the way to Kinshasa, the national capital a thousand ...

Dujarric, the U.N. spokesman, said the United Nations has about 1,200 international and national staff and dependents in Bukavu ... Jean-Yves Kamale and Christina Malkia in Kinshasa, Mark Banchereau ...

Some residents in the Congolese capital, Kinshasa, on Thursday welcomed an address by President Félix Tshisekedi, saying they wanted action to end war in eastern Congo. The president of the ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels who captured eastern Congo’s largest city said Thursday they want to take their fight to the far-off capital, Kinshasa, while Congo’s president called ...

The Rwanda-backed armed group M23 vowed Thursday to "continue the march of liberation" to the DR Congo capital Kinshasa, as its fighters made further advances in the mineral-rich east of the country.