During the Senate’s tour of 15 districts, including 11 along the international borders, Sen. Jean Pierre Dusingizemungu was shocked when he detected a Genocide ideology case involving a 12-year-old ...

Communities in the DRC are urging the World Bank not to fund the costly, potentially destructive Inga 3 mega-dam.

A conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is set to erupt into a wider ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today issued a new position on returns to the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), advising that Congolese nationals fleeing the conflict, as well as those ...

Despite mounting international pressure, the DR Congo remains resolute in its refusal to engage in direct talks with the M23 ...

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

Jane Kleeb, the chair of Nebraska's Democratic Party who first gained political notoriety as a climate activist a decade ago, won a national leadership post Sunday within the Democratic National ...

Rwanda-backed rebels captured a key eastern Congo city a month ago Friday. Residents in Goma say they are struggling on ...

Wells College has scheduled a presentation to outline the process for selling the campus in Aurora. The meeting will be held at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21, at the Morgan Opera House, 370 Main St ...

From winding borders to straight lines and landlocked nations, Al Jazeera explores the stories behind Africa’s map.

When Mobutu fled Kinshasa, the Kabila-Kagame coalition won the First Congo War in 1997. Kabila was installed as president of Zaire and changed the country’s name back to The Democratic Republic ...

South Dakota Republican Gov. Larry Rhoden signed a bill into law that would close a campaign finance loophole, he announced Tuesday. The bill, from Sen. Mike Rohl, R-Aberdeen, was introduced as a ...