The DRC seeks to offer key minerals to the U.S., but rebel forces and China largely control access to these vital rare earth resources, which are said to be worth trillions of dollars.

Since January, the M23 rebel movement has seized Goma and Bukavu — two key cities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) — and since set up to govern for the long term in the regions under its ...

Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has long ruled out dialogue with the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels ...

USAID staffer Kenneth Bledsoe and his family had to be evacuated to safety from the Congo -- only to return home to find Elon Musk leading the dismantling of the agency.

At least half a million people have been displaced by the fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo over the past two ...

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) said on Thursday that a summit of regional heads of state had terminated ...

Angolan President Joao Lourenco, the African Union’s peace mediator for the conflict in Congo, is pushing for direct talks ...

Angola has acted as a mediator in the conflict in eastern Congo, which escalated in late January when the Rwanda-backed ...

Bangladesh was the world’s second most polluted country in 2024, with average smog levels exceeding World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines by more than 15 times, according to data compiled by ...

The countries with the worst air quality included Bangladesh and India, according to an annual report from IQAir.

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...