Many are still haunted by the aborted legacy of DR Congo’s first prime minister, who was murdered on January 17, 1961.

Independence for Congo followed a strange course of events unlike anything else in the rest of Africa. The Belgian Congo was huge and underdeveloped. After the war, new cultural organisations like ...

DR Congo's first prime minister and a revered independence hero. She traded ideas with famed revolutionaries like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, Guinea's Sékou Touré and Algeria's Ahmed Ben Bella, yet her ...

Independence for Congo followed a strange course of events unlike anything else in the rest of Africa. The Belgian Congo was huge and underdeveloped. After the war, new cultural organisations like ...

She addressed crowds of women, encouraging them to push for gender equality as well as Congo's independence. She also had a knack for organising and strategy. Soon, the colonial powers and ...

During his visit to Belgium in Sept 2024, Pope Francis announced the start of the beatification process for the man who ratified the Congo's independence.

KISHINJI, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - APRIL 4: Displaced community members who have fled the M23 ... [+] conflict leave a Doctors Without Borders discussion group on the subject of sexual ...

Amid a surging conflict in the east, Christian denominations in the Democratic Republic of Congo have launched a strategy to ...