M23’s advances highlight Rwanda’s role in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the risk of an escalating regionalised ...

Human rights advocates and politicians from the region say Russian mercenaries are believed to be behind the disappearance of ...

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 ...

Among the most affected are South Sudan, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Liberia, Sudan, Uganda, and ...

As the crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo reaches a critical juncture, pressure is mounting on the African ...

Families and activists in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, have protested over the government's closure ...

Since it became independent in 1960, the Central African Republic has grappled with poverty, instability and governance challenges.A decade into former president François Bozizé's corrupt rule, a ...

In the Central African Republic, peacekeeping missions are losing popular support by failing to meet people’s expectations, ...

Their vision was a place where Black youths could learn about African culture and people could gather and celebrate ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

GENEVA - As fighting between M23 rebels and Congolese armed troops escalate in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ... increasingly are using rape and sexual violence as a weapon of war.

South Africa has troops deployed in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo as part of a U.N. peacekeeping mission there, as well as in a separate deployment by the Southern African Development ...