Inside the Goma Cultural Center in Congo, dozens of guitars once used to teach Goma’s youth hang silently on the wall.

It’s one story among too many. Another woman, raped—used as a weapon of war in an endless conflict in Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. To reach Chegera, a village in Kabare ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) owes much of its global renown to its music, which reflects its cultural diversity.

After a century of decreased sightings, reports of a long-necked water monster the size of a hippopotamus are once again ...

Gauthier Marchais, Research Fellow at IDS, has won the Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award of the Comparative and ...

Panelists at the “Building Local&Regional Capability” discussion at the Congo Energy&Investment Forum on Wednesday emphasized that the strength of Congo’s LNG sector depends not just on advanced ...

The leader of the rebels who captured two key cities in eastern Congo tells The Associated Press that international sanctions ...

The beloved Virika Cathedral—an architectural and historical landmark that had stood for nearly six decades—collapsed, ...

Many tourists love learning about a new place, but some countries are currently dangerous and are on the US government's ...

Ted Blunt died in early 2024. March 22nd, 2025 would have been his 82nd birthday. Former Council Presidents James Baker, Norman Griffiths and Hanifa Shabazz as well as current Council President Ernest ...

President Donald Trump made at least nine false claims in his Friday remarks to reporters in the Oval Office – including a series of wildly exaggerated statistics on a variety of topics.

Fifty-nine years ago, a powerful earthquake shook Uganda’s Tooro region, sending tremors across Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Kenya, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Records indicate that ...