South Africa's poor showing in the Congo crisis has gone down badly at home. Photos that surfaced showing the heads of South Africa's army and air force playing golf during the crisis this week ...

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is a multilateral fund dedicated to confronting biodiversity loss, climate change, pollution, and strains on land and ocean health. Over the past three decades, ...

Rwanda-backed rebels claimed they captured eastern Congo’s strategic city of Goma, the hub of a region containing trillions of dollars in mineral wealth that remains largely untapped ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels have claimed ... It marks a sharp escalation in one of Africa’s longest wars, threatening to dramatically worsen a dire humanitarian crisis.

Congo’s mines are making the rebels — and their patrons in Rwanda — rich. A map of Africa highlights two countries: Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, along with two major ...

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the deaths of 13 of its soldiers in eastern Congo fighting ...

It has accused South African forces of working alongside the Hutu FDLR, a charge South Africa denies. DEFENCE IN DECLINE South Africa’s poor showing in the Congo crisis has gone down badly at home.