He says years of delays and numerous changes of partners are "normal" for a major infrastructure project like the Inga Dam.

Parliament is demanding an investigation into the apparent under-equipment of South Africa’s troops in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Conservative estimates suggest the M23 rebels control approximately 43 per cent of North Kivu and 39 per cent of South Kivu ...

During his visit to Belgium in Sept 2024, Pope Francis announced the start of the beatification process for the man who ratified the Congo's independence.

Prolific writer David Maillu is launching a Trump statue atop a modified pit latrine because he is saddened by his ...

Coups have thrust some of the most brutal leaders into power ...

Many are still haunted by the aborted legacy of DR Congo’s first prime minister, who was murdered on January 17, 1961.

January 15 marks 50 years since the Alvor Agreement promised Angola’s independence from Portugal. Yet the new state was ...

Nana Akufo-Addo may not have reached the levels of infamy associated with Mobutu Sese Seko,however, the similarities in their ...

Mobutu Sese Seko, who had seized power in 1965, also encouraged the emigration of pastoralists from Rwanda. In 1972, according to Mr Mamdani, politicians from the Congolese Kinyarwanda-speaking ...

Paul Manafort, the Republican consultant and felon who President-elect Donald Trump pardoned in 2020, put together a team of Trump 2024 advisers to try and drum up business advising far-right parties ...

The first bell in Zaire sounded at 4am and the two men were each paid $5million – with president Mobutu Sese Seko putting up the money. Mobutu was probably the most terrifying, murderous ...