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 ...

As the first member of the Belgian government to visit the Congo since his country prematurely and disastrously thrust its former colony into independence, Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak might ...

Three Americans convicted in a failed coup in DR Congo were repatriated to the US.. Their transfer coincided with ongoing ...

The memoirs of the Central African revolutionary Andrée Blouin tell the story of a woman who witnessed firsthand the ecstatic highs and tragic lows of Africa’s struggle for independence.

The Brussels government eventually will have to choose between a policy of repression and a policy aimed at granting the Congo independence. Want more from The Atlantic? Sign up for our daily ...

DOHA, April 5 (Reuters) - Congo's government and M23 rebels last week held private talks in Qatar for the first time since the rebels conducted a lightning offensive in the country's east ...

It came from Félix Tshisekedi, the embattled president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, who is facing down a domestic rebellion supported by neighboring Rwanda. The rebel group, named M23 ...

Lumumba’s crime in the eyes of Western powers was his insistence on true Congolese independence, particularly his efforts to nationalize the country’s vast mineral wealth. He sought Soviet ...

Members of the M23 armed group stand in front of Guatemalan soldiers of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) as they monitor ...