Congo's Kasai region is the latest deadly hotspot in the vast Central African country that has had violent rebellions for decades. Once again, children are among the most vulnerable victims. Well over 1 million people have fled the fighting that began a year ago when ...
One of Democratic Republic of Congo's most notorious warlords, Ntabo Ntaberi Sheka, wanted for alleged crimes against humanity, surrendered to U.N. peacekeepers on Wednesday, the U.N. mission in Congo (MONUSCO) said. Sheka's militia, Mai-Mai Sheka, is one of a patchwork of armed groups in eastern ...
An unlicensed Ebola vaccine could soon be tested in a remote region of the Democratic Republic of Congo hit by an outbreak of the deadly virus, the World Health Organization said Thursday. There is no licensed vaccine for the Ebola virus, but a promising candidate ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on Sunday a second case of Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo after an outbreak this week of 17 other suspected cases. Health officials are trying to trace 125 people thought to be linked to the cases identified in ...
"I haven't once spoken my mother tongue Kilokele in the 62 years I've lived in Kinshasa. None of my nine children speak it," says Charles Tongohala. Tongohala's native tongue is one of 450 spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a sprawling nation of 71 ...
With an otaku's giddiness, Baye McNeil speaks with Nsenda Lukumwena, an authority on Japanese buildings and head of an architectural firm in Kobe.
Two kidnapped foreign U.N. contractors have been found dead, one of them decapitated, the Democratic Republic of Congo said Tuesday. Spiraling violence in the vast country, formerly known as Zaire, has sparked international condemnation. The bodies of Michael Sharp and Zaida Catalan, an American and ...
A swampy forest in Central Africa the size of England covers previously unknown carbon stocks equivalent to three years' worth of global emissions of carbon dioxide, scientists revealed Wednesday. Draining these peat lands for agriculture, or reduced rainfall due to climate change, would release massive ...
Congolese President Joseph Kabila will step down after elections to be held by the end of 2017 under a last-minute deal struck by political parties on Friday, the lead mediator of the talks said. Negotiators have been in tense talks for weeks seeking to ensure ...
A critically endangered gorilla species in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo has lost more than three-quarters of its population and risks disappearing in the next five years, experts warned Wednesday. Just 3,800 Grauer's gorillas (Gorilla beringei graueri) are left in the wild, according to ...
At least 14 people have been killed, including children and two soldiers, in an attack on a train blamed on former rebel fighters south of the Congo capital Brazzaville, police said Sunday. The attack was carried out Friday by former Ninja Nsiloulou fighters of ex-rebel ...
The architects of a historic accord to end Colombia's 52-year war are among the favorites to win this year's Nobel Peace Prize as speculation mounts ahead of this week's honors. The awards season opens Monday with the announcement of the medicine prize in Stockholm, but ...
