On May 26, 2004, pop-punk band Sum 41 went through a harrowing experience that subsequently led them to the title of their next album. While filming a documentary in the Congo, they had to be rescued ...

That last reference is to King Leopold of Belgium, who ran (or exploited) what he called the Congo Free State from 1885 to shortly before France’s acquisition of much of the area. Early in the 20th ...

Congolese documentary filmmaker Nelson Makengo, whose feature debut, “Rising Up at Night,” won the Special Jury Award at Swiss doc fest Visions du Réel this year, is producing the Kinshasa-set ...

Eastern Congo remains trapped in a brutal three-decade conflict fueled by the global demand for gold and minerals. This documentary follows local miners risking cave-ins in dark shafts while displaced ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday banned a documentary film about a doctor who treats war rape victims, leading the film makers to say the government was trying to silence ...

This is my country: jubilant Congolese citizen Ambroise Boimbo seizes the ceremonial sword of Belgium's King Baudouin I (in white) in Léopoldville (Kinshasa) on 29 ...