She is one of millions of victims of sexual violence in the DRC, where rape has routinely been used as a weapon of war. Cases ...

When Armand Diangienda founded the Kimbanguist Symphony Orchestra - one of the most famous in Africa - in 1994, they had so ...

In the First Congo War (1996-97) a coalition of African states and internal Congolese opponents successfully ended autocrat Mobutu Sese Seko’s 26-year reign. However, the relations between the ...

The end of one of the world’s deadliest and yet most shadowy wars is as difficult to predict as the end of the large ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — For Nelly Shukuru ... “All around us there is war, and the number of people facing difficulty is increasing daily,” said Innocent Ntamuheza, a psychologist with Action ...

With the Democratic Republic of Congo at war and in chaos for most of the orchestra's first decade, they had to mend and make ...

All this meant the Namugunga family were in the crosshairs when the First Congo War broke out. Vacationing in Congo as a five-year old, Bakenga had to spend two years on the run with his family.

Sponsored by the Society of Black Scientists and Engineers, the gathering was the first event of Stanford ... internally displaced in the Second Congo War, which is considered the world ...

KIBATI, Democratic Republic of Congo, Oct 18 (Reuters ... a young mother listening to Buchaguzi, said it was the first she had heard of the vaccination campaign. "They just tell us to quickly ...

The life of a war photographer may sound like the elegant ... women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, wounded veterans—and my heart leaps,” she writes of pursuing the work that ...

The involvement of better-equipped Rwandan forces, with U.N. experts estimating up to 4,000 of them in Congo, has led to talk of war by Congo's government. A July truce brokered by the United ...