A number of steamships have been named Leopoldville or Léopoldville:SS Léopoldville (1895), 3,386 GRT, built by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co, Middlesbrough for the Compagnie Belge Maritime du Congo. Sold in ...

FLATWOODS Christmas Eve 1944 was a dark day for the 66th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army. At 99 years old, Jerry Carroll says his memory is fuzzy. But he vividly recalls the enemy attacking the SS ...

The DR Congo's capital Kinshasa needs more than double the mpox vaccines it currently has to immunise all the city's at-risk population, the virus response chief told AFP Wednesday. Vaccinations ...

For the Congolese side, putting this contract into effect should allow the CIZ to become operational, prior to entering into fresh negotiations on the other offshore blocks coveted by Kinshasa (AI, 29 ...

On October 28, 1960, for instance, Louis Armstrong jubilantly arrived in the Congolese capital of Leopoldville (renamed Kinshasa in 1966) to perform. He came to a country that has always mystified the ...

The human rights situation across the Democratic Republic of Congo remains dire, with internal conflicts and poor governance contributing to a severe food crisis and the internal displacement of 5 ...