In February, rebels conquered eastern Congo’s largest city, forcing displaced people sheltering there to return to homes in the middle of a war zone.

Togo leader Faure Gnassingbe has been given the powerful new role of President of the Council of Ministers which has no fixed ...

Of the small handful of papal contenders, an even smaller subset tends flocks in countries at war. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, ...

Gabon began swearing-in on Saturday President-elect Brice Oligui Nguema, who led a coup ending decades of Bongo family rule.

The unprecedented advance by Rwandan-backed M23 rebels, part of a decades-long conflict rooted in the Rwandan genocide, has ...

Gabon's President-elect Brice Oligui Nguema who led a coup ending decades of Bongo family rule will be sworn in Saturday.

Democratic Republic of Congo has launched a bid to strip former President Joseph Kabila of immunity so he can face trial on ...

The three Utahns accused of participating in a failed coup attempt in the Democratic Republic of Congo appeared in a federal ...

The economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - a nation endowed with vast natural resource wealth - continues to perform poorly. Systemic corruption since independence in 1960, combined ...

Three Americans convicted in the Democratic Republic of Congo of attempting a coup d’état last year now face charges in the United States. The Justice Department said Wednesday that Marcel Malanga, 22 ...

Belgium has denied claims that it has sent troops to engage rebels in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, amid a diplomatic spat between Belgium and Rwanda. News reports and social ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Four Americans were charged Wednesday in federal court with coordinating the failed Democratic Republic of Congo coup last May, after their death sentences in that country were ...