South Africa's defence minister said there was a need to "relook at" a Southern African mission in Democratic Republic of ...

At least 11 people were killed in attacks over the past day in the rebel-held Democratic Republic of Congo city of Bukavu as ...

The African Development Bank and the Republic of the Congo have signed two grant agreements totalling $1.5 million to ...

The World Health Organization speculated that a mass poisoning event was behind the deaths of 60 people. But African experts ...

The aid response in Burundi to the crisis in neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) “is literally buckling”, the ...

In the late 1950s Pan-African activist Andrée Blouin contributed to Sékou Touré’s campaign for independence in Guinea, then ...

Rwanda's government spokesperson, Yolande Makolo, has emphasised that the country wants security and safety for its people and that neighbouring DR Congo should commit to peaceful efforts to address ...

When global powers chant never again after atrocities, we must ask: do they truly mean repentance, or do they mean never again without profit? Belgium's colonial strategy had one objective: relentless ...

Oosting discusses the alignment of the theme with the significance of Vlisco’s textiles in expressing individual and cultural ...

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

The resumption of hostilities since the M23 (March 23 Movement) rebel group resurged and captured territories in the eastern ...

The United Nations says the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have abducted at least 130 sick and wounded men in two hospitals in a ...