After flying flags of Zaire, DR Congo's name under ex-dictator Mobutu ... east — Washington wants to secure greater access to the African country's minerals, which are used in mobile phones ...

[Reuters] Onlookers cheered as one demonstrator removed the EU flag from the entrance ... more than 7 million. Congo is the world's top supplier of cobalt and Africa's top copper producer.

But this year the event is marked by tensions over Rwanda's alleged support of the M23 rebel group in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo ... national flags will be flown at half-mast ...

Congolese authorities say at least 50 people were killed in weekend attacks in the country's conflict-hit east where ...

The men recently had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment for their role in an attempted coup last May in the ...

While the Democratic Republic of Congo reels from a new rebel offensive in the east, its capital in the west, Kinshasa, ...

Congolese officials and negotiators for the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have arrived in Doha for talks to hammer out a ...

Three Americans repatriated to the United States from Congo have been charged by the U.S. Justice Department with staging an ...

Former Congolese president Joseph Kabila will return to the central African nation to help find a solution to the crisis in ...

Three Americans have been transferred to the United States after their death sentences over a foiled deadly coup were ...

Three Americans repatriated to the United States from Congo were charged Wednesday by the U.S. Justice Department with staging an elaborate coup attempt aimed at overthrowing the African nation ...