Since the African continent was divided at the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, the struggle for its wealth has played out on two fronts. The first was political, as European powers, starting with King ...

It is high time the South African National Defence Forces' (SANDF) holed up in a UN base camp in DR Congo's North Kivu ...

The UN human rights chief accused Rwanda-backed rebels who seized a second major city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief accused Rwanda-backed rebels who seized a second major city in eastern ...

The 600-page report says that France “did nothing to stop” the massacres, in April and May 1994 ... after the country’s genocide in which 800,000 ethnic Tutsi and Hutus who tried to protect ...

A rebel alliance spearheaded by the ethnic Tutsi-led M23 militia said it had seized the lakeside city of more than 2 million people.

State-sanctioned media and political rhetoric in both the DR Congo and Burundi today bear disturbing similarities to the pre-1994 discourse that preceded the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda ...

The U.N. human rights chief has accused Rwanda-backed rebels who seized a second major city in eastern Congo of killing ...