Though its mines provided the uranium for the Nagasaki and Hiroshima A-bombs, the durable giant known as the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga had never been so preoccupied with explosives as it was ...

The recent history of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) has been one of civil war and corruption. It is rich in ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the second-largest country in Africa and the 11th-largest in the world by land area.

Nearly 300 foreign mercenaries hired by the Democratic Republic of Congo government to counter a swift offensive by ...

An African country that's the 11th largest in the world also shares its border with a staggering nine other countries.

Former election-chief-turned-rebel-leader Corneille Nangaa has gone from overseeing Congo’s contested 2018 election to leading a powerful insurgency against the DRC’s President Félix Tshisekedi.

Since the turn of the millennium, however, many of Africa’s elections have been ... Americans arranged to hand over to Moise Tshombe in Katanga, Patrice Lumumba, the inconvenient post-colonial ...

Far from becoming less turbulent, Africa’s January may have infected ... the Americans arranged to hand over to Moise Tshombe in Katanga, Patrice Lumumba, the inconvenient post-colonial Prime ...

In January 1961, the Belgians and the Americans arranged to hand over to Moise Tshombe in Katanga, Patrice Lumumba ... The Congo and, indeed Africa, have both paid a heavy price for those events.

She grew up between Central African Republic (CAR ... Then, Belgium, the UK and US backed secession in Katanga, a mineral-rich region that all three Western nations had interests in.

The second most important material after lithium is nickel, plentifully available, and the small amounts of cobalt needed as the third material are easy to buy around the corner in Zambia and DRC's ...