The supply chain for coltan and other strategic minerals is long, opaque and deliberately fragmented. Each layer adds distance between the ultimate beneficiaries—giant tech corporations such as Apple, ...

Jean-Pierre Lacroix, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, will fly to the Eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo later today, his office announced on Monday. Lacroix ...

Fourty Five years ago, precisely in 1981 the Popular Resistance Army (PRA) launched its war against the Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA) and the second Uganda Peoples’ Congress government of ...

A National Resistance Army fighter of Rwandan origin, Fred Rwigyema was killed on the first day of the Banyarwanda refugees ...

A U.N.-backed global hunger watchdog warned Thursday that famine is spreading to more parts of Darfur in western Sudan. The U ...

Although critics like to believe otherwise, the country is not choosing sides in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

With majestic rainforests, volcanoes, and an extraordinary story of wildlife conservation, Rwanda—roughly the size of Maryland—offers travelers a captivating journey in compact form.

Rwanda's formal system of honouring national heroes, which was introduced after the liberation struggle and the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi draws from deep-rooted traditions of recognising courage ...

CAIRO (AP) — Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim dashed from building to building, desperate for places to hide. He ran through streets ...

I did not need to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps to know they were unspeakably evil. However, my somber visit ...