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

He took over leadership of the country in 2001 at the age of just 29, after his father and former coup leader, President ...

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

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

If the next pope is from sub-Saharan Africa, he would be the first in Catholic Church history. Catholic Africans think it is ...

Conservatives are also pushing for Cardinal Peter Erdo of Hungary, who has been silently complicit in the wake of repressive ...

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

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Hundreds of Congolese soldiers and police officers, along with their families, were transferred from the rebel-controlled town of Goma in eastern Congo to the capital Kinshasa, the ...

Nowhere in the world is the Roman Catholic Church growing faster than in Africa, a continent Francis showered with attention.

Halle Berry, Payal Kapadia, Alba Rohrwacher, Leïla Slimani, Dieudo Hamadi, Hong Sangsoo, Carlos Reygadas and Jeremy Strong ...

Four Americans pleaded not guilty to criminal charges in a federal court in Utah after authorities said they conspired to ...

Among African clerics tipped as potential popes are Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, 76, Democratic Republic of ...