Raging waters claim over 40 lives in Nairobi, Kigali, Kinshasa and Kampala during current ...

More than just music, the event became a case study in how nations of the Global South can leverage culture as a tool of soft ...

Congo and Rwanda vowed to come up with a draft peace deal by May 2 and refrain from providing military support to armed ...

Four Americans pleaded not guilty to criminal charges in a federal court in Utah after authorities said they conspired to ...

AIR Tanzania Co. Ltd (ATCL) has announced the launch of direct flights between Dar es Salaam and Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), marking a significant expansion of its African flight ...

It's very possible the next pope could be from Africa, where the Catholic Church continues to add millions of members.

Top contenders include Ghana's Cardinal Turkson and Congo's Cardinal Ambongo, although insiders say none is a clear ...

Every morning the Congolese city of Bukavu, now under the control of the Rwanda-backed M23 movement, counts its dead.

In early April, extreme rainfall and flooding in and around Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killed at least 33 people. Such catastrophic rainfall events are predicted to ...

Africans are hoping one of their own could become the first Black pope in modern history and build on Francis's legacy of ...

The vilest scramble for loot that has ever disfigured the history of human conscience” is how Joseph Conrad described colonial-era concessions granted to private companies for Congo’s natural ...

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but ...