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U.N. peacekeepers are unlikely to proceed with an agreed withdrawal from Congo's conflict-torn North Kivu for as long as Rwandan troops remain in the eastern province, the Congolese foreign minister said on Saturday.

Congolese authorities have released a Polish man who was sentenced there to life in prison on espionage charges, Poland’s foreign minister said Tuesday.

Republic of the Congo has declared an epidemic of mpox after 19 cases were confirmed across five departments, including the capital Brazzaville.

More than 30 people were killed in a string of attacks by extremist rebels in eastern Congo, a local human rights organization said. Men, women and children were killed by the Allied Democratic Forces — which has ties to...

Six members of the 16-man crew on a Liberia-flagged tanker are being held hostage by pirates who boarded the ship in West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea last week, the Danish shipper that owns the vessel and the French Navy sai...

Pirates have attacked and boarded a Danish-owned ship in the Gulf of Guinea and all communications channels with the vessel are down, a spokesperson for shipping company Monjasa said on Tuesday.