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Congo President Félix Tshisekedi attends a campaign rally ahead of the presidential elections, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Samy Ntumba Shambuyi)

Congo’s presidential candidates kick off campaigning a month before election

By Jean-Yves Kamale and Justin Kabumba - Associated Press

Dr. Gaya Gamhewage, WHO director of the Prevention of and Response to Sexual Misconduct, speaks during the 76th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, May 25, 2023. Internal documents obtained by The Associated Press show that the World Health Organisation has paid $250 each to at least 104 women in Congo who say they were sexually abused or exploited by Ebola outbreak responders. That amount is less than what some U.N. officials are given for a single day's expenses when working in Congo. (Antoine Tardy/WHO via AP)

Internal documents show the World Health Organization paid sexual abuse victims in Congo $250 each

By Maria Cheng - Associated Press

The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination (book cover)

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Lumumba Plot’

By Martin Di Caro

People displaced by conflict wait for the arrival of United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean Pierre Lacroix in Bunia, eastern Congo, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022. The United Nations migration agency says a record 6.9 million people have been displaced by conflict across Congo, making it one of the world’s largest displacement and humanitarian crises. The International Organization for Migration says the decadeslong conflict has been the primar(AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)

A record 6.9 million people have been displaced in Congo’s growing conflict, the U.N. says

By Justin Kabumba - Associated Press

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni speaks at the Serbia Palace in Belgrade, Serbia, on July 30, 2023. Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni said Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023, that recent airstrikes against rebels with ties to the Islamic State group in eastern Congo have killed “a lot” of the militants, possibly including a notorious bomb maker. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Uganda’s president says airstrikes killed ‘a lot’ of rebels with ties to Islamic State in Congo

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

Felix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, at the United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Congo’s president wants the large U.N. peacekeeping mission to start leaving the country this year

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

Residents flee fighting between M23 rebels and Congolese forces near Kibumba, some 20 kms ( 12 miles) North of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Oct. 29, 2022. A senior UN official said Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, the humanitarian situation in conflict-wracked eastern Congo has deteriorated alarmingly in the past 18 months with 8 million people in urgent need of assistance and women and girls subjected to sexual violence on a massive scale -- just in three provinces. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)

An alarming humanitarian crisis and massive sexual violence wrack eastern Congo, U.N. official says

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Arrested members of the Wazalendo sect are sat and lined up in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. More than 40 people died and dozens were injured in clashes in the Congolese city of Goma between protesters from the Wazalendo religious sect and the armed forces, national authorities said. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Two military officers are arrested in Congo for leading a protest crackdown that killed 43 people

By Justin Kabumba - Associated Press

Arrested members of the Wazalendo sect are sat and lined up in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. More than 40 people died and dozens were injured in clashes in the Congolese city of Goma between protesters from the Wazalendo religious sect and the armed forces, national authorities said. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

The Congolese military is accused of a deadly crackdown on a religious sect, killing at least 43

By Zane Irwin - Associated Press

Residents flee fighting between M23 rebels and Congolese forces near Kibumba, some 12 miles North of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Oct. 28, 2022. The United Nations is warning that violence in eastern Congo has escalated significantly. A U.N. spokesperson says more than 600 people have been killed and 345,000 displaced in Ituri province alone so far this year. (AP Photo/Justin Kabumba, File)

Rebel attacks in restive northeastern Congo kill at least 21 people over the weekend, officials say

By Jean-Yves Kamale - Associated Press

Residents flee fighting between M23 rebels and Congolese forces near Kibumba, some 12 miles North of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Oct. 28, 2022. The United Nations is warning that violence in eastern Congo has escalated significantly. A U.N. spokesperson says more than 600 people have been killed and 345,000 displaced in Ituri province alone so far this year. (AP Photo/Justin Kabumba, File)

Escalating violence in Congo displaces more people and demands urgent response, U.N., aid group say

By Zane Irwin - Associated Press

A member of the security forces uses his mobile phone torch to inspect a bedroom inside the Lhubiriha Secondary School following an attack on the school on Saturday, in Mpondwe, Uganda Sunday, June 18, 2023, near the border with Congo. Ugandan authorities have recovered the bodies of 41 people including 38 students who were burned, shot or hacked to death after suspected rebels attacked the school, according to the local mayor. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

Ugandan border town prepares to bury victims of rebel massacre that left 42 dead, mostly students

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

People pass along the road leading to the Mpondwe border crossing with Congo, in western Uganda on June 14, 2019. Ugandan authorities recovered the bodies of dozens of people including students, following an attack by suspected rebels on the Lhubiriha Secondary School, near the Mpondwe border crossing with Congo, the local mayor said Saturday, June 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi, File)

At least 41 killed in rebel attack on Ugandan school near Congo border

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

African cobalt, batteries and Blood of the Congo Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

‘Cobalt Red’: The price Africans pay so we can have better batteries

By Clifford D. May

Relatives gather to identify bodies in the village of Nyamukubi, South Kivu province, Congo, Saturday, May 6, 2023. The death toll from flash floods and landslides in eastern Congo has risen to over 150, with some 100 people still missing, according to a provisional assessment given by the governor and authorities in the country's South Kivu province. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

176 dead, many more missing after Congo floods

By Jean-Yves Kamale - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron, left, is greeted by Democratic Republic of the Congo President Felix Tshisekedi in Kinshasa Saturday March 4, 2023. Macron, on the last leg of an ambitious Africa trip that took him to Gabon, Angola, the Republic of Congo and Congo, wants to roll out more ambitious economic policies, in a bid to boost France's waning influence in the continent (AP Photo/Samy Ntumba Shambuyi)

Congo leader urges Macron to back sanctions against Rwanda

By Jean-Yves Kamale - Associated Press

Residents wait in line to receive the Ebola vaccine in Beni, Congo DRC on July 13, 2019. A confidential U.N. report into the alleged missteps by senior World Health Organization in the way they handled a sexual misconduct case during an Ebola outbreak in Congo found their response did not violate the agency’s policies because of what some officials described as a “loophole.” The report, which was submitted to the WHO Director-General on Jan. 2023, and was not released publicly, was obtained by the Associated Press. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

‘Loophole’ excuses WHO officials accused of misconduct

By Maria Cheng - Associated Press

Pope Francis waves at worshipers at the Martyrs’ Stadium in Kinshasa, Congo, Thursday Feb. 2, 2023. Pope Francis urged Congo’s young people to work for a peaceful and honest future on Thursday, getting a raucous response from a generation that has been particularly hard-hit by the country’s chronic poverty, corruption and conflict. (AP Photo/Samy Ntumba Shambuyi)

Pope Francis rallies Congo’s youth and gets a thunderous response

By Nicole Winfield, Christina Malkia and Jean-Yves Kamale - Associated Press

Pope Francis on the popemobile arrives at Ndolo airport where he will preside over the Holy Mass in Kinshasa, Congo, Wednesday Feb. 1, 2023. Francis is in Congo and South Sudan for a six-day trip, hoping to bring comfort and encouragement to two countries that have been riven by poverty, conflicts and what he calls a "colonialist mentality" that has exploited Africa for centuries. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Before a crowd of 1 million, Pope Francis urges Congolese to forgive

By Nicole Winfield, Christina Malkia and Jean-Yves Kamale - Associated Press

Security personnel takes position near the Cathedral Notre Dame du Congo in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sunday Jan. 29, 2023. Pope Francis will be in Congo and South Sudan for a six-day trip starting Jan, 31, hoping to bring comfort and encouragement to two countries that have been riven by poverty, conflicts and what he calls a "colonialist mentality" that has exploited Africa for centuries. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

‘Hands off Africa!’: Pope blasts foreign plundering of Congo

By Nicole Winfield and Jean-Yves Kamale and Christina Malkia - Associated Press