NEW ORLEANS - The U.S. State Department has vetted and endorsed New Orleans as one of only two city applicants in the country ...

Congolese musician Delcat Idinco had just produced a song about the atrocities taking place amid the M23 onslaught in his home region when he was assassinated in Goma, North Kivu."Bunduki za Kwetu" ...

Rwanda-backed rebels battling Congo’s army have pushed into a strategic, mineral-rich town in the east, ignoring calls for a ...

A musical about the Kinks, an FKA twigs concert and a festival of Asian films are among the entertainment highlights of the ...

The country’s president offered a deal that would give the U.S. access to key minerals in return for a security pact that ...

Jupiter Bokondji and his group Okwess have been shaking up our notions about Congolese music since their debut album Hotel Univers dropped in 2013. The band actually formed in Kinshasa in 1990 when ...

The presidents of Congo and neighboring Rwanda met Tuesday in Qatar for their first direct talks since Rwanda-backed M23 ...

Rapper Freddy Mukuza, who was married with two children, was moving house on the day he was killed [Freddy Mukuza / Facebook] ...

The electronic and experimental music band KOKOKO! didn’t record its albums in studios, or even really indoors, in its birthplace of Kinshasa, the sprawling capital of the Democratic Republic of ...

This article explores the history, rules, and impact of Sape, highlighting its deep connection with music and its role in ...

A mystery illness that has caused dozens of deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo appears to from a "poisoning of a water source," according to the World Health Organization. The WHO's head ...

GENEVA (Reuters) -Conflict in Congo has sent 63,000 refugees fleeing to neighbouring Burundi in its largest such influx in decades, with conditions dire at a crammed stadium camp and many stuck in ...