Africa awaits, with bated breath, the outcome of the African Union Commission Chairman's election slated for this Saturday. The election pits Kenya's Raila Amollo Odinga against Djibouti's Mahmoud Ali ...

More than 80 civilians were killed in a late night attack by the armed group CODECO on a cluster of villages in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this week, UN peacekeeping mission MONUSCO ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, have since been advancing around one of Africa's great lakes, Lake Kivu, towards the second-biggest city ...