Joseph Kabila

KINSHASA, June 19 (Reuters) - More than a dozen advocacy groups urged the first U.S. special representative to Africa's war-torn Great Lakes region on Wednesday to push for democracy and good governance in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The United...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Once the leafy art-deco jewel of the Belgian Congo and later the buzzing cultural heart of dictator Mobutu Sese Seko's Zaire, Kinshasa has become a playground for violent gangs sowing fear and transforming swathes of the city into...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Security in Congo's copper-mining heartland of Katanga is a "very serious concern" that must be tackled politically and militarily, the outgoing head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission said on Monday. The province, which sits on some...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- In his seven years on the run from international justice, Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda became a symbol of the International Criminal Court's impotence. Now the court, which lacks a police force to arrest those it has...

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — On Nov. 19, armed men from a rebel group called the M23 were looking for a prominent civil society leader in a village outside Goma, a provincial capital in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. He'd been...

Controversial new U.S. rules will soon require publicly traded companies that use minerals such as tin, tungsten and gold to disclose whether the minerals they buy to make cellphones, laptops and other goods may have helped bankroll conflict in the...

A Congolese army general has forced at least 149 boys and young men to join his mutinying forces in less than a month, repeating the crime for which he has long been wanted by the International Criminal Court, according to a new report from Human Rights...

Tension rises in Congo with violence expected and election results delayed: Election results in the Democratic Republic of Congo will be delayed 48 hours, state television announced late Tuesday, fueling tension in a controversial election that many...

The Democratic Republic of Congo braced Tuesday for violent protests after the scheduled release late in the day of election results that likely will usher in a new term for President Joseph Kabila....

Congo president Kabila declared winner in controversial election: After a chaotic vote and opaque count, Congo President Joseph Kabila was declared the winner, in a result analysts fear will trigger violent protests....

Chaos and violence mar elections in Congo: At least five people were confirmed dead in violence as Democratic Republic of Congo held presidential and parliamentary elections, amid frustrations due to voting delays and chaos....