NAIROBI, Kenya, April 6 -- Almost 1,000 people were killed last week in attacks by armed militants on villages in northeastern Congo, a U.N. spokesman said today. The spokesman, Hamadoun Toure, said a ...

Wherever they have operated in the Congo, they are known as “the white giants.” But for all their fierce reputation, Colonel Jean (“Black Jack”) Schramme and his band of white mercenaries are ...

DAKAR (Reuters) - Congo's government on Saturday said it had returned the body of a tribal leader whose death last year triggered a conflict in Kasai Central province that has killed more than 400 ...

BENI, Congo -- Hiding in bushes, Amuzati Nzoli watched as rebel soldiers turned from killers into cannibals: his 6-year-old nephew was their victim. Accounts like the one told by the middle-aged Pygmy ...

Streaming into Leopoldville last week, the delegates to the Congo’s first Parliament were a strange-looking lot. Some had the sharply pointed heads of a tribe that practices infant skull bandaging.

GATUMBA, Burundi -- Attackers with machetes and automatic weapons raided a U.N. refugee camp in western Burundi, shooting and hacking to death at least 180 men, women and children, U.N. officials said ...

GATUMBA, Burundi (AP) -- Attackers with machetes and automatic weapons raided a U.N. refugee camp in western Burundi, shooting and hacking to death at least 180 men, women and children, U.N. officials ...

Wounded in the head and chest and with her children in tow, Miniunga Bonkita fled to the haven of an island in the Congo River, a sliver of land between two nations. "They shot at me," she said. "I ...

BUJUMBURA, Burundi - Dozens of attackers raided a U.N. refugee camp in western Burundi, shooting and hacking to death at least 180 Congolese, witnesses and officials said Saturday. About 150 people ...

His team were knocked out of the Africa Cup of Nations in agonising fashion on Tuesday, but the Democratic Republic of ...