2001-05-05 04:00:00 PDT Kabinda, Congo-- The civilian death toll stemming from Congo's 33-month war may reach a staggering 2 1/2 million people, surpassing the totals for any modern African war ...

Congo Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, hands bound, sits in the bed of an army truck under guard of Congolese soldiers on Dec. 2, 1960, one day after his arrest by troops loyal to Col. Joseph Mobutu.

Heineken has lost operational control and withdrawn its staff from its facilities in conflict-affected areas of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the Dutch brewer said on Friday.

DANIEL USHUNDI, 11, who was shot in the fighting as rebels captured Goma, at a hospital Nov. 23 in the city in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Jehad Nga/The New York Times What war has gone on ...

Since Congo's civil war broke out in 1994, it has become the world's deadliest conflict, ... Ironically, it was Congo that handed the UN its first major peacekeeping defeat in 1960.

Heineken has lost operational control and withdrawn its staff from its facilities in conflict-affected areas of eastern ...

Devlin has written a memoir about his experiences, Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone. In January 1960, Congo's Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba was assassinated ...

Congo also suffered the deadliest war Africa has ever seen—between 1998 and 2003—which saw a plethora of rebel groups and militias, some allegedly backed by regional players like Rwanda and ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) -- The Congo is about as far removed from Cuba as you can get. Yet in the 1960's, Cubans squared off in a military confrontation that featured Fidel Castro's troops commanded by ...

Retired CIA field officer Larry Devlin was appointed CIA station chief in Zaire in the Congo in 1960, ... Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone. Support for LAist comes from.