BENI, Congo (AP) — A suicide bomber attacked a restaurant and bar Saturday as patrons gathered on Christmas Day, killing at least six others in an eastern Congolese town where Islamic extremists are ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — More than 170 inmates on death row were flown from Congo’s capital to a high-security prison in the north where they will be executed, Congolese authorities said. Seventy of the ...

The Congolese government executed some 102 men in the past week, and 70 more are set to be executed, the country's minister of justice said Sunday. It said the men, aged 18 to 35, were armed robbers ...

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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 ...

The operation dealt a significant blow to organized crime groups, seizing 2,111kg of ivory and 34 kg of pangolin scales, rescuing a live pangolin from trafficking, and confiscating 180 pieces of ...

It started with a heartbeat. The drummers and community members who fanned out Sunday underneath the broad and shady boughs of the ancestor tree, a massive oak on the edge of Congo Square inside ...