Since flag independence from Belgium on June 30, 1960 and since the gruesome murder of its founding president, Patrice ...

See 12 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

On the streets I once walked and drove down daily, near the shopping centre where I bought my groceries, dead bodies lay ...

Residents in the eastern city of Bukavu pray for peace as fighting with Rwandan backed rebels bereaks out with renewed ...

Several groups of artists gathered this Wednesday in Dakar to paint a mural and denounce the violence between the armed group ...

RWANDA has the best economy in Africa and receives over US$1 billion international grants every year from the European Union (EU), the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US). But wait until ...

A glimpse of life after the siege in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, as some semblance of a tenuous peace returns, as does the fear of reprisals.

Large parts of Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, are now under the control of the M23 and their Rwanda ...

The M23 rebels took control of a town 100 kilometres (60 miles) from the provincial capital of Bukavu despite a ceasefire.

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of ...