Since January, the M23 rebel movement has seized Goma and Bukavu — two key cities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) — and since set up to govern for the long term in the regions under its ...

The heavily armed rebels do not act alone. They are backed by neighbouring Rwanda, according to the UN and the US. Rwanda ...

USAID staffer Kenneth Bledsoe and his family had to be evacuated to safety from the Congo -- only to return home to find Elon Musk leading the dismantling of the agency.

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today completed the sixth and final review of the Republic of Congo’s arrangement under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF), which was ...

Angola has acted as a mediator in the conflict in eastern Congo, which escalated in late January when the Rwanda-backed rebels advanced and took control of the strategic eastern Congo city of Goma. In ...

Arab and Black Sudanese work in peaceful coexistence in Kampala, thanks to one property manager.

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

When Fred Kamunyu, then 35, visited his sister in 2002 in Kikoni, Makerere, he was shocked at the dilapidated state of the ...

Beyond deployment, India has also played a vital role in training and capacity-building initiatives for peacekeepers. The ...

U.S.-funded organizations helped keep dangerous pathogens in check around the world. Now many safeguards are gone, and ...

The clashes marked a major escalation in the challenge to the new government in Damascus, three months after insurgents took ...

The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents ...