STAFF of the Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) are trapped in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), amid escalating violence between the army and rebel groups. The ...

At the end of March 2025, the total number of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Horn of Africa region ...

The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has commuted the death sentences of three Americans convicted of ...

When Basketball Hall of Famer and Nuggets great Dikembe Mutombo died from brain cancer last September, NBA commissioner Adam Silver lauded him for his excellence as a player and humanitarian. "On the ...

Electricity access in the Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) has improved in recent years, but there are still challenges to providing reliable and widespread electricity to the entire population.

Belgian forces conquered Rwanda, a former German colony, in 1916 during the first world war. They got help from nearby ...

Using two decades of satellite data, researchers found that forest loss and fragmentation were among the strongest predictors ...

Ngay of the Congo also urged the 15-member Council to consider referring Rwanda’s military interference in his country to the International Court of Justice. He said that nearly half of the entire ...

M23 rebels in control of key areas of eastern Congo have agreed to a ceasefire with African coalition peacekeepers who ...

Twenty-eight million people face acute hunger in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a record for the country, driven by an ...

The capture of Goma and Bukavu, the regional capitals of North and South Kivu respectively in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by the 23 March Movement (M23), strongly supported by ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is facing one of the world’s largest ... with movement restrictions hindering aid ...