For sapeurs, appearance is a powerful way to make an impression and stand out in an environment often defined by hardship.

Analysis - In the two Congos, there's a cultural movement by the Society of Ambience-Makers and Elegant People (Sape), known as "sapeurs", who blend fashion, culture and social resistance. Though it ...

Regional conflicts, murderous militias, the exploitation of natural resources, innocent civilians forced to flee their homes; ...

Approximately six million people have died in the conflict in the eastern D.R.C. since 1996. For decades, numerous armed ...

The United Nations has 14,000 of its blue helmet soldiers in the Kivu region, and this past December, 14 blue helmets were killed. The countries that make up the Southern African Development Community ...

It is now almost three decades, when the crisis in violatile great lake Eastern regional city of Goma in Democratic Republic of the Congo started, with heavy violence carried out by the brutal ...

Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variations. There is a vaccine for the Zaire type, now trials for another are underway ...

A little over a week ago, the town of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) fell to the Congolese rebel group, M23. The response to its fall by the DR Congo government, the United ...

Did you know that there has never been a single Tutsi armed group in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo before 1995? In this article, we will delve into the historical context of the ...

Promoter Ben Shalom has indicated that a deal for the Joshua-Bakole fight is nearing completion. He mentioned that the bout ...

But is the conflict in eastern Congo a dangerous drama waiting for a spark that will rekindle the ethnic divisions of the past that eventually led to the gruesome death of millions of people?