Vast fortunes have been made in Congo throughout history but the money has often vanished, either being taken abroad or wasted in the country, leaving the Congolese people with nothing.

Massive quantities of copper deposits were discovered when a mountain collapsed in the Grand-Katanga area, south of the ...

William Holman Bentley (1855–1905) was a missionary who spent twenty-one years in the area of the Congo. Originally published in 1900, these two volumes document the pioneering work of travellers to ...

This documentary about the challenges faced by the Democratic Republic of Congo is worthwhile but dense, says Victoria ...

And the coup? Well, that is sometimes given the polite name “Congo Crisis”. The movie is a geopolitical true-crime story, rooted in the 1961 assassination of former Congolese prime minister ...

Congo’s dark history spans centuries and lingers even into the present day. Though the most recent civil war ended in 2003, the scars of that conflict are carved deep into the bodies and psyche ...

Unlike kids in the United States, hunter-gatherer children in the Congo Basin have often learned how to hunt, identify edible ...

Health workers have been vaccinating people against Ebola to prevent the spread of the virus The UN's global health body says the Ebola outbreak in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo is ...

Aug. 4 at 5:00 p.m. Correspondent Katharine Houreld and photographer Arlette Bashizi traveled together across southeastern Congo, visiting industrial and artisanal mines in the country’s three ...

The current protests are not the first time Belgium's ugly history in Congo has been contested in the streets. In 2019, the cities of Kortrijk and Dendermonde renamed their Leopold II streets ...

Director Johan Grimonprez’s main narrative unfolds in Africa, as he examines how the promise of the Congo was cut down ... swinging work of 20th-century history. It comes by way of a heroic ...