On May 16, Succès Masra, the Chadian opposition leader and former prime minister, was arrested in N’Djamena, Chad’s capital ...

Faced with a lack of running water, unsanitary conditions and poverty, the Kinshasa neighbourhood of Pakadjuma has struggled ...

Renewed fighting in the DRC’s eastern North Kivu region, despite the ink being barely dry on a peace deal signed last week in ...

Militants backed by the "Islamic State" group attacked a Catholic church in eastern Congo, leaving more than 40 people dead.

The long-anticipated treason trial of former Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila began Friday in a military ...

The high-profile treason trial of Joseph Kabila, former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), began on Friday ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) stands on the precipice of a profound environmental and social crisis, as the government prepares to auction 55 new oil blocks that cover more than half the ...

KINSHASA, Congo — The death toll from flooding that cut access to over half of the Congolese capital of Kinshasa reached 33 as authorities raced Monday to evacuate and support hundreds of ...

Excitement is at an all-time high in Kinshasa as the Democratic Republic of the Congo prepares to officially launch the first World Music and Tourism Festival today, under the theme 'The Rumba Route ...

In our recent paper, we show how politics and football come together in a number of ways in Kinshasa, the country’s capital city. Football was particularly important for Joseph Kabila’s regime ...

HIV/AIDS originated in Kinshasa in 1920, long before it was officially recognized in the 1980s, according to a study published on Friday in the journal Science. The authors of the study traced the ...

Katrien Pype, Fighting Boys, Strong Men and Gorillas: Notes on the Imagination of Masculinities in Kinshasa, Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, Vol. 77, No. 2 (2007), pp. 250-271 ...