The Latest Breaking News from Congo

Sixty-five years after the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba, a key figure in the Congolese independence movement, the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office hopes that a trial may finally take place – possibly in 2026 – as part of the investigation into “war crimes” opened in Belgium, the former colonial power.

Violence against children caught in multiple and escalating conflicts reached “unprecedented levels” last year, with the highest number of violations in Gaza and the West Bank, Congo, Somalia, Nigeria and Haiti, according to a new United Nations report

He is being hailed as a martyr for opposing the mafiosi ‘in the name of the Gospel’

The head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo met with leaders of the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 on Friday in Goma, in her first visit to the eastern city of Goma since its capture by the insurgents

Countries subject to the travel bans have urged Trump to reconsider restrictions

The court acquitted a woman of Congolese origin who entered Italian territory accompanied by two minors using false passports.

Trump's South Africa 'genocide' gaffe, using a Congo image, sparks outrage and mockery. Can US diplomacy recover?

Human rights group Amnesty International accused the M23 rebels in eastern Congo of killing, torturing and forcibly disappearing civilian detainees in two rebel-controlled cities

Conservationists warn that the charcoal boom is coming at a steep ecological cost.