The electronic and experimental music band KOKOKO! didn’t record its albums in studios, or even really indoors, in its birthplace of Kinshasa, the sprawling capital of the Democratic Republic of ...

Congolese musician Delcat Idinco had just produced a song about the atrocities taking place amid the M23 onslaught in his home region when he was assassinated in Goma, North Kivu.

Idengo, famous for his songs critical of both the government and ... after M23 militants seized the city last month. The east of DR Congo has been engulfed in fighting as armed groups and the ...

known for his politically charged songs. Associated Press writer Jean-Yves Kamale in Kinshasa, Congo, contributed to this report.