Measuring roughly 4,700 kilometers (2,920 miles), the Congo River courses through the heart of Africa, winding through the Democratic Republic of the Congo and neighboring countries. Its dense ...

The remains of a Congolese customs worker who was killed for resisting a bribe and beatified by the Vatican have been ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...