In a darkening world, here’s an unlikely glimmer of light: Last month, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda signed ...

The United Nations and Western governments say Rwanda has provided arms and troops to M23. Rwanda denies backing M23 and says ...

A U.S. official says Congo and Rwanda have submitted a draft peace proposal as part of a U.S.-led process that could end ...

Africa and the U.S.'s Multidimensional StrategyAs major powers vie for access to Africa’s strategic resources, the United ...

African leaders increasingly neglect homegrown initiatives, instead bowing to foreign ...

Democratic Republic of Congo said on Friday it had become the latest African country to grant a licence to tech billionaire ...

Yassmin Yousif, a second-semester biology student at the University of Connecticut who is Sudanese American, said she is terrified for her family in Sudan as the country faces a civil war.

Every morning the Congolese city of Bukavu, now under the control of the Rwanda-backed M23 movement, counts its dead. Corpses are discovered at dawn, lying in the steep streets of the capital of ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has suspended the political party of former President Joseph Kabila and ordered the seizure of his assets, accusing the 53-year-old of high treason over ...

Read our new story here. The number of people who died after a motorized wooden boat caught fire and capsized in the Congo River in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to 148 ...

The move has caused outcry in Uganda, with human rights activists calling the decision "insane" on social media. NGOs and opposition politicians have long accused the government of President ...