President Felix Tshisekedi on Saturday called for strengthened collective efforts to transform the Great Lakes region into a genuine zone of peace, security, and development, as he opened the ninth ...

The DRC is at the centre of the region’s security crisis; its position as ICGLR chair offers a chance to revive collective ...

The 20th Ordinary Meeting of National Coordinators of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) held on Monday, in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) seeks to ...

African leaders from the Great Lakes region called on rebels in the conflict-riven Central African Republic to agree to a ceasefire on Friday. Election-based violence in the country has displaced more ...

BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo, Feb. 26 (UNHCR) - High Commissioner Ruud Lubbers, on the third day of a whirlwind trip to stress the plight of uprooted people in Central Africa, met Tuesday with ...

The Great Lakes African American Writers Conference (GLAAWC) is the African American literary event of the year! As we gear up for this year’s event, Cleveland Book Fest partners sat down with GLAAWC ...

The Republic of Burundi is a country in the African Great Lakes region of East Africa. The country is bordered by Tanzania to the east and south, Rwanda to the north, and the Democratic Republic of ...

KIGALI, March 16 (Reuters) - Governments in Africa's volatile Great Lakes region have listed more than 100 people wanted for alleged rebel activities, Rwanda's foreign minister said on Friday. "Each ...

He used a kayak to make his way across the lakes and travelled between lakes by bicycle making him the first person to complete a solo, man-powered crossing of the Great Lakes of Africa. [Ross Exler] ...

The TEAL project is designed to improve environmental monitoring in the African Great Lakes. We are building field spectrometers for measuring the optical properties of lakes. Deployment of autonomous ...

Why it's incredible: The lake contains huge amounts of explosive carbon dioxide and methane. Lake Kivu is a giant body of water that is so saturated with carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane at its depths ...