(Kinshasa) – Intercommunal violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s western Kwamouth territory from June 2022 to March 2023 has killed at least 300 people in cycles of attacks and ...

The Teke people of the Republic of Congo were forced to cohabitate with the French in the 1800s. They returned to their own way of life after independence in the 1960s.

It pitted the local Teke people against their neighbours, the Yaka and the Suku. The Kakungu mask is venerated by both the Suku and Yaka as an ancestral symbol of war. They believe it confers ...

The traditional king of the Teke people in Congo-Brazzaville has asked the French government to build him a palace. King Makoko of the Teke says he and his ancestors have not benefited enough from a ...

A power cut means it's almost pitch-black. The roughly 140 residents of the courtyard are Teke people who fled Kwamouth in the province of Mai-Ndombe, some 200 kilometres north of Kinshasa ...

Eighteen people were killed in clashes between two communities in western Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this month, according to a government report seen by AFP Sunday. Fighting broke out ...