Congo-Brazzaville's 82-year-old President Denis Sassou Nguesso promised to extend his decades-long time in power on Saturday ...

Residents of Uvira in eastern Congo are expressing concerns that decomposing bodies might spread disease after authorities said 171 bodies were found in mass graves.

Afghanistan and Pakistan are fighting again, trading deadly shelling and mortar fire across their rugged border, with ...

Congolese authorities and a civil society group say they found mass graves in an area of eastern Congo that the M23 rebel group has recently withdrawn from, as fighting in the region escalates despite ...

It is a war for control over some of the world's richest mineral reserves and the violence is heightened by long-standing ethnic and political tensions. In the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, ...

January 27, 2026 marks exactly one year since the AFC/M23 rebel movement took control of Goma, the largest city in eastern DR Congo and the capital of North Kivu province. The fall of Goma followed ...

Congo, the US and UN experts accuse Rwanda of backing M23, which had hundreds of members in 2021. Now, according to the UN, the group has around 6,500 fighters. While Rwanda denies that claim, it ...

Omg, there’s been an arrest in the Jan. 6 pipe bomb investigation: The FBI has made an arrest in the nearly 5-year-old investigation into a pipe bomb being placed outside the offices of the Democratic ...

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When I visited the king of Bukumu, Mwami Butsitsi Kahembe IV Isaac, he was dressed in a crisp white caftan, with the skin of a leopard killed by his great-grandfather slung over his shoulders. A crown ...