For the first time in ten months, the Congo’s fledgling Parliament reassembled last week in Lovanium University’s handsome modern auditorium. Isolated from outside influences by an electrified ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. 1482 Portuguese explorers arrive at mouth of Congo River, find well-developed African ...

In a yellow plaster house with a red tin roof on the outskirts of Leopoldville, Colonel Joseph Mobutu, 29, bit his fingernails, answered the telephone, coped with a stream of visitors, and tried to ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will mark 57 years of independence on Friday, 30 June. This year also marks the 20th anniversary of Mobutu Sese Seko’s fall from power in 1997. The DRC is ...

Nairobi — Halfway through the World Cup extravaganza, another important event on the continent drew international attention. This was the 50th anniversary of Congo's independence. As I watched my ...

The beauty of this book is that it makes sense of chaos. For the past few decades, the Congo, one of Africa's richest countries in natural resources, has been in an economic decline that has resulted ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will mark 57 years of independence on Friday, 30 June. This year also marks the 20th anniversary of Mobutu Sese Seko's fall from power in 1997. The DRC is ...