The catastrophe unfolded when a fire started while a person was cooking on board the boat that was carrying some 500 passengers. People jumped overboard without knowing how to swim, officials said.

Kinshasa, Congo – Major flooding in the Congolese capital of Kinshasa has killed at least 22 people and cut off access to ...

While the Democratic Republic of Congo reels from a new rebel offensive in the east, its capital in the west, Kinshasa, ...

A boat has capsized after catching fire in the northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), leaving at least 50 ...

Around 30 people have died in flooding in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa, the provincial health minister ...

People walk through the flooded streets of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo Sunday, April 6, 2025. Credit: AP/Samy ...

Congo’s rivers are a major means of transport ... accidents in recent years as more people abandon the few available roads for wooden vessels packed with passengers and their goods.

The AP has reached out to Congo’s military. Holding Walikale gives the rebels control of a road linking four provinces in eastern Congo — North Kivu, South Kivu, Tshopo and Maniema ...

The leader of a rebel alliance that has seized swathes of east Congo told Reuters on Thursday that insurgents were not bound by a ceasefire call from Congo and Rwanda's presidents and cast any ...

When it comes to China's economic ties with DR Congo, the UN Comtrade Database shows that for years China has been DR Congo's ...