Dan Gertler, middleman in one of the world's biggest mining scandals, laundered money and paid US$360 million in cash bribes to high-ranking politicians in Congo-Kinshasa, according to court...

New disclosures show that the publicly listed Italian oil major Eni misled its shareholders over its business ties to one of Congo-Brazzaville's most controversial and powerful political figures,...

The latest report of the UN Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of Congo, released on 10 June, is a blistering return to form for an institution...

Amid a debt crisis and seeking bailout funds from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Congo-Brazzaville has promised to clamp down on corruption. But President Denis Sassou-Nguesso's decision to...

Furious argument has erupted over the normally placid elections by the UN General Assembly for one of the two non-permanent seats reserved for African countries on the UN...

A month after Mahamat Idriss Déby took the helm in Chad in the wake of his father's death in April, huge questions remain over the country's economic fortunes,...

Relations between President Faustin Archange Touadéra and his former Western backers in Paris and Washington are deteriorating fast over the government's lack of accountability and its use of...

Dan Gertler's mining deals could cause losses to Kinshasa's treasury of at least US$3.7 billion, more than double previous estimates, according to new data from a coalition of...

Within a week of the killing of President Idriss Déby Itno on the front line in the early hours of 20 April, his international allies had twice changed...

Announcing hundreds of planned initiatives, Congo-Kinshasa's new government has lofty ambitions, but its main challenge may simply be staying together. Its four vice-prime ministers, each from a different...