KAMPALA, Uganda — If the next pope is from sub-Saharan Africa, he would be the first in Catholic Church history. Catholic ...

Nowhere in the world is the Roman Catholic Church growing faster than in Africa, a continent Francis showered with attention.

During his last visit to Kinshasa, the Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs discussed the conflict ...

The April 23 joint announcement by the Congolese government and the AFC/M23 rebellion, under the aegis of Qatar, “constitutes an important - even decisive - step towards lasting peace” in the east of ...

Malanga is the son of opposition figure Christian Malanga, who led the foiled coup attempt that targeted the presidential palace in Kinshasa. The elder Malanga, who live-streamed from the palace ...

From business tycoons and members of the judiciary to security chiefs, we delve into a list of people pushing for President Mnangagwa to rule beyond his term limit. Despite Zimbabwean President ...

Heavy rains in Kinshasa caused the Ndjili River to overflow, killing 33 people and displacing hundreds as floodwaters damaged homes and key infrastructure. Severe flooding in Kinshasa has left at ...

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — Three U.S. citizens jailed over a failed coup attempt in the Democratic Republic of Congo are now in U.S. custody after their sentences were commuted ...

Some 41,000 refugees have crossed from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) into Uganda since January, many of them having witnessed killings, "sexual violence and other traumatic experience ...

While the Democratic Republic of Congo reels from a new rebel offensive in the east, its capital in the west, Kinshasa, grapples with deadly floods. By Saikou Jammeh Reporting from Dakar ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR Representative in Uganda, Matthew Crentsil – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. GENEVA – ...

Three United States citizens initially sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over a botched coup attempt have been repatriated after Kinshasa commuted their death sentences ...