"Welcome to Soweto," reads the name of a small store, with the flags of South Africa and DR Congo either side of the phrase.

The Congolese chapter of Islamic State has a ruthless way of stopping outsiders reporting their presence to the authorities.

Welcome to Soweto,” reads the name of a small store, with the flags of South Africa and DR Congo either side of the phrase. The small maroon container shop deals in everyday products, from soft drinks ...

Johannesburg – A devastating report from UNICEF has revealed the horrific scale of sexual violence against children, including infants as young as one year old, amidst the ongoing ... Democratic ...

Instead, DRC Prime Minister Judith Suminwa Tuluka told BBC News that ... They die of diseases, and families are separated.” Rooted in decades-old ethnic violence, today’s conflict threatens to cripple ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is having “daily exchanges” with the United States government with the aim of securing a minerals-for-security deal, Congolese officials have told ...

Rwanda has severed all diplomatic ties with Belgium, amid fraught relations between the countries over fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). All Belgian diplomats must leave Rwanda ...

Flags engender such loyalty and pride, they often become very personal emblems with quirky or quaint nicknames: Old Glory, Union Jack, Maple Leaf — or SOB. That would be (state) “Seal on a ...

Two explosions in the second-largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Thursday killed at least 11 people and injured around 65. The blasts occurred at a meeting of leaders of the ...

However, in that interview, Tshisekedi did not offer the U.S. control over DRC's mineral resources, nor did it suggest any military intervention. The DRC leader told the newspaper that he hoped ...

The withdrawal of the SAMIDRC force from the eastern DRC has significant negative ramifications for South Africa and SADC’s standing as a player in African peacekeeping. It leaves the DRC scrambling ...