KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo plans to allow 71 children whose adoptions were interrupted by a 2013 suspension to join families in the U.S. and four other countries next week, an official told The ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo has drafted new adoption legislation and reviewed cases pending since it halted international adoptions in 2013, the government said Tuesday. Among the recommendations in ...

KINSHASA, Congo -- Congo's government cleared the way Monday for dozens of children to join their adoptive families abroad after more than two years of waiting, though another 1,000 will have to ...

(AP) — With the president of Congo coming to Washington for a U.S.-Africa summit, hundreds of frustrated American families are hoping he can be persuaded to lift a suspension that has stalled efforts ...

NEW YORK (AP) — After nearly two years of heartache and frustration, several hundred American families now have reason to hope that children they are adopting from Congo may finally be allowed to ...

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