French peacekeepers land in eastern Congo, the first troops in a force meant to protect civilians trapped in a desperate civil war. Some Africa watchers fear the international response is ...

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NAIROBI, May 30 -- -- After weeks of negotiations, the U.N. Security Council today approved deployment of French-led international troops to chaotic northeastern Congo, where ethnic massacres have ...

He died of dysentery in a French Congo prison in 1942. His disciples, deifying him, hold that he is still alive and will return one day to the Congo to drive the whites out.

PARIS, Jan. 31 -- Congo's new president, Joseph Kabila, on his way to the United States on his first diplomatic trip since the assassination of his father two weeks ago, met French President ...

Born in a region of what was then the French Congo and is today part of the Central African Republic, Blouin emerged from a childhood of abuse to become a young, nomadic romantic and ultimately a ...

France Tuesday ruled out sending combat troops to Congo to help U.N. peacekeepers there because the conflict zone is too close to Rwanda, further dimming hopes that an EU force can be put together ...

French judges have ordered the seizure of properties tied to the family of Republic of Congo's President Denis Sassou Nguesso in an investigation over suspected ill-gotten wealth, a source at the ...

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot was visiting the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa on Thursday to discuss the crisis in the country's east, Congolese government sources told ...