Congolese security forces have been responsible for numerous enforced disappearances in and around Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, since March 2025.

A U.S. mining company backed by billionaires Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates is in a tangle with Belgium's AfricaMuseum over who ...

Recent science news features Russia completing repairs at Baikonur's space launch pad, a re-attributed Michelangelo sculpture in Italy, and a conflict between a Belgian museum and a U.S. mining firm ...

Rubaya mine produces about 15% of the world’s coltan, which is processed into tantalum, used in mobile phones More than 200 people were killed this week in a collapse at the Rubaya coltan mine in ...

Dorothy Waugh, a pioneering Modernist designer who created the U.S. government’s first in-house National Parks poster campaign during the Great Depression, is the subject of her first-ever solo ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is sending the United States a list of mineral projects open to American investment as Washington steps up efforts to counter China’s dominance in critical supply ...

Donald Trump struggled with the names of several African countries while speaking at the DRC-Rwanda deal ceremony at the newly renamed “Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace.” The agreement, formally ...

Congolese envoy Sumbu Sita Mambu shook hands with M23 secretary Benjamin Mbonimpa at the signing in Doha Rwandan-backed M23 rebels and the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo have signed a ...

Night - Cloudy with a 51% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 6 mph (9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 75 °F (23.9 °C). Mostly cloudy with a high of 91 °F (32.8 °C) and a 60% chance of ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo and the Rwanda-backed M23 group signed an agreement on Tuesday in Doha to establish a ceasefire monitoring mechanism, mediator Qatar said in a statement. DR Congo and ...

DAKAR, Senegal — Congo’s authorities announced this week a new Ebola outbreak, which has killed more than a dozen people in a southern province. Samples analyzed at the National Institute for ...

Monrovia — The signatories to a U.S.-brokered peace agreement intended to end the decades-long conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo have recommitted themselves to implementing the deal. This ...