Africa gets giant hydro dam

Chinese, South Korean and Spanish firms are vying to develop a hydro-electric project likely to cost between $9-billion and $14-billion (U.S.) on the Congo River, Congolese officials said on Saturday. The planned Inga 3 project, which aims to ...

Violent clashes between rebels and soldiers in the restive east of the Democratic Republic of Congo have left 40 people dead, government and military officials said Thursday. Fighting broke out between Mai-Mai militia and government troops on ...

Minerals Corporation has started the field work to explore for copper at its JV tenements in the Democratic Republic of Congo that will pave the way for drilling this June. The exploration is focused on the two primary tenements of Luishia, which is ...

In a story May 11 about the arrival of Tanzanian troops in eastern Congo, The Associated Press erroneously cited United Nations mission spokesman Col. Felix Basse. The information should have been

The head of the South African army says soldiers who will join a United Nations military mission in Congo will be adequately prepared even though his overall force is overstretched and underfunded. Lt. Gen. V.R. Masondo also told media at a ...

With casualties in the long-running conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) now surpassing every conflict since World War II, U.S. policymakers and advocates are stepping up campaigns to raise awareness and push legislation aimed at ...

Ben Affleck has created a shoe line for his Eastern Congo Initiative charity using colourful Congolese textiles.

The Congolese army says that 32 were killed in fighting between soldiers and Mai Mai militiamen.

After fostering peace through sports in conflict-torn East Timor, Columbia, Burundi and Congo, former world table tennis champion Peter Karlsson is now willing to replicate it in ever volatile West Asia.