Visiting mountain gorillas in their natural habitat in Rwanda is special on its own. There's a new lodge dramatic in both ...

Analysis - The city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was taken over by the M23 rebel group in January 2025. This was a tragic escalation of a decades-long conflict that's led to mass ...

The DRC illustrates how millions of people in fragile, violent and conflict-affected parts of the world are at risk of ...

M23 rebels enter the centre of east Congo's second-largest city, Bukavu, and take control of the South Kivu province ...

Apart from the heavy human cost, the return of hybrid warfare to the Democratic Republic of the Congo risks stability on the ...

Congo’s largest church organizations met Wednesday with Rwanda-backed rebels in the country’s east in the latest push for peace and dialogue after weekslong fighting that saw ...

The continent’s landscape is evolving as large tectonic plates shift. Eventually, the Eastern countries will separate from ...

See 12 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

On the streets I once walked and drove down daily, near the shopping centre where I bought my groceries, dead bodies lay ...

More than 100 female inmates of an African prison were raped and burned alive during a jailbreak, the United Nations said.

A ceasefire in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo doesn't appear to be holding, deputy U.N. envoy in Congo Vivian van de ...