The War in Vietnam pushed me out of academia, turned me into an anti-imperialist and cast a long shadow on my life. The March ...

A U.S. official says Congo and Rwanda have submitted a draft peace proposal as part of a U.S.-led process that could end ...

Congo's justice minister says that authorities have asked the country’s Senate to lift the immunity of former President ...

About six months after he was elected head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis made a surprising admission. A Jesuit priest was interviewing Francis when he departed from a pre-approved list of ...

Starting with Saturday’s anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the country will look back to its war of independence and ask where its legacy stands today. Just after dawn on the ...

suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Thousands filled the grass at Independence National Historical Park, chanting “No Kings” and referencing ...

Hundreds of passengers were crowded onto a wooden boat on the Congo River in northwest DRC on Tuesday when the blaze broke out. A boat carrying fuel caught fire and capsized in the Democratic ...

The mayor of the DR Congo town near where a boat caught fire earlier this week has said at least 33 people died in the disaster, significantly fewer than previously reported. That toll ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - At least 143 people died in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a boat caught fire and capsized, media reports citing local officials said Friday, as reported by Arab News. The ...

The death toll from a boat fire and capsizing in Congo earlier this week rose to 148 with more than 100 people still missing, officials said Friday. About 500 passengers were on board. The wooden ...

Read our new story here. The number of people who died after a motorized wooden boat caught fire and capsized in the Congo River in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to 148 ...

The economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - a nation endowed with vast natural resource wealth - continues to perform poorly. Systemic corruption since independence in 1960, combined ...