In August 2024, the World Health Organization declared a second "Public Health Emergency of International Concern" for mpox.

The Congolese independence leader’s uncompromising speech about 80 years of European colonial brutality and injustice went ...

In August 2024, the World Health Organization declared a second "Public Health Emergency of International Concern" for mpox.

THE discovery of gold in the volatile eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has triggered a population boom and exposed the region to a renewed cholera scourge. Lomera, the lakeside village in th ...

Bad recent history: When former dictator Mobutu Sese Seko fell in 1997, war erupted throughout Congo. A series of peace agreements -- U.N. blessed -- purportedly ended the Great Congo War in 2003.

However, infectious diseases that were hitherto under control are re-emerging globally and the pathogens of these diseases are highly resistant to known antibiotics.

Congo and Rwanda ink a U.S.-facilitated peace deal as hopes rise for stability, but M23 rebels and mineral interests cast shadows over lasting peace.

Since the Rwandan genocide, the ongoing conflict in east Congo has killed 6 million people, in attacks, famines and unchecked ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda on Friday signed a peace deal facilitated by the United States to help end the ...

A deal signed in Washington has been touted as a major step toward peace in Congo following decades of conflict that has ...