Virtually all banks are closed. Currency shortages abound. Staples prices have jumped. Now residents are finding themselves ...

Democratic Republic of Congo has launched a bid to strip former President Joseph Kabila of immunity so he can face trial on ...

The mission to bring peace to eastern Congo, however, is far from accomplished. The recent past is littered with broken ...

The International Committee of the Red Cross announced on Wednesday (April 30) it is escorting hundreds of Congolese soldiers ...

The International Committee of the Red Cross says it is helping transfer hundreds of Congolese soldiers and police officers ...

The April 2025 flooding disaster in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, wasn’t just about intense ...

Flash floods swept through Kinshasa, killing dozens and displacing hundreds. As survivors return to devastation, officials ...

Heavy rains have triggered severe flooding from a key river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo capital Kinshasa, killing some 30 people and destroying homes and roads.

On 30 April 2025, following a request to act as a neutral intermediary, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is accompanying a series of convoys from Goma to Kinshasa transporting ...

In an escalation of a long-running conflict rooted in the spillover of Rwanda's 1994 genocide and the struggle over Congo's vast mineral resources, Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seized Goma, eastern ...

Major voices of the conclave. Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, 65, the outspoken archbishop of Kinshasa, has long championed ...

In this particular case, the ICRC was approached by several actors – notably the DRC’s ministry of defence and veterans, ...