One of the most heart-warming stories in Nigeria last week was that seven governors, only three of them from Nigeria, met in Maiduguri to push forward with concerted efforts to salvage the Lake Chad ...

Thomas Mariee's expedition down the Rokel River was an exercise in getting out of his comfort zone, one rapid and insect bite ...

A new premier in France and soon in Canada, a new coalition in Austria, new presidents in Georgia and Moldova despite ...

The Eastern Congo rebel alliance that includes the M23 has declared a ceasefire for humanitarian reasons starting on Feb. 4, ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have seized control of a mining town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province, ...

The AFC/M23 rebel coalition announced late on Monday that it would implement a unilateral ceasefire starting on Tuesday. The ...

A political-military coalition of groups called the Alliance Fleuve Congo (River Congo Alliance), of ... to impose sanctions on Rwanda. In South Africa, President Cyril Ramaphosa vowed on Monday ...

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering creature living in the Congo River Basin. The alleged dinosaur-like ...

The Congo River Alliance (AFC), which includes the so-called M23 group, said in a statement Monday that it had called for the truce, beginning Tuesday, "in response to the humanitarian crisis ...

The two blocs have, in the past two years, gone separate ways in their approach to the DR Congo conflict. ALSO READ: South Africa-led SADC deployment in the DRC will destabilize the East African ...