Burundian citizens who work in Uvira, DRC, and could not cross back into their home country due to fighting, cross the border ...

This week will go down as one of the most shocking in the history of the University of Michigan football program.

It was a busier-than-usual week in the hotel industry. Several hotel chains opened new hotels across the world, including ...

The king of Democratic Republic of Congo's raunchy "soukous" music is the new deputy governor of the capital. Veteran musician Tabu Ley Rochereau told the BBC he wanted to use his skills as a ...

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, M23 rebels have threatened to overthrow the government in Kinshasa. But experts say that the escalating war could be nothing more ...

On May 16, Succès Masra, the Chadian opposition leader and former prime minister, was arrested in N’Djamena, Chad’s capital city. He is charged with complicity in intercommunal violence. But his ...

Faced with a lack of running water, unsanitary conditions and poverty, the Kinshasa neighborhood of Pakadjuma has struggled to end a cholera epidemic that has claimed hundreds of lives in the ...

When General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, Uganda’s first son and Chief of the Defence Forces (CDF) of the Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF), touched down in Kinshasa last Saturday, he was met with full ...

"Dance in Congo is characterised by two aspects: the spirit of combat and the sex act," Felix Wazekwa, legendary Congolese singer-showman and choreographer of the orange-hued routine, had told me ...

Meet The Herds: Wildebeests, zebras, gorillas, giraffes, and baboons are among hundreds of lifesize wooden animal puppets making their way across 10 countries, from Africa to the Arctic Circle, to ...

Gode Bola receives funding support from the Congo River User Hydraulics and Morphology (CRuHM) project (2016-2021), which was entirely funded by The Royal Society-DFID Africa Capacity Building ...

Heavy rains in Kinshasa caused the Ndjili River to overflow, killing 33 people and displacing hundreds as floodwaters damaged homes and key infrastructure. Severe flooding in Kinshasa has left at ...