Author and analyst Vijay Prashad discusses how poverty and resource exploitation still ravage the country to this day.

SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Sunday is Congolese Independence Day, and some members of the Democratic Republic of Congo community who now call Scranton home gathered together on ...

In Elisabethville, Tshombe blithely made plans to celebrate Katanga’s own independence day—July 11, marking the date in 1960 when the province seceded. The U.N.’s Congo chief, patient Robert ...

The Congolese Community in Dundalk celebrated their independence anniversary recently The event was hosted by Congolese ...

Lumumba, a leading member of the independence movement, entered the history books on June 30, 1960, the day that the Republic of Congo, as it then was, formally broke away from Belgian colonial rule.

a prime minister and a chief of state in time for independence day on June 30; but bloody tribal fighting has raged for months through the Congo. Bitterest of all was in the land of the Lulua.

amid a fresh 15-day truce between the army and Rwanda-backed rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Experts on the ground say they're holding their breath, citing the dire ...

President Felix Tshisekedi held a meeting of DR Congo's defense council Saturday. During a speech to mark the country's Independence Day, Tshisekedi said "clear and firm instructions have been ...

(Reuters) - A humanitarian truce in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been extended by 15 days until 11.59 p.m.

The top U.N. official in Congo has welcomed a two-week humanitarian cease-fire in its mineral-rich east, where she says ...

A large crowd gathered to welcome 75 people from 37 different countries as new American citizens during a naturalization ...

1971: Orangemen in Northern Ireland march in city streets to celebrate half century of Protestant rule. 1983: Britain and ...