Hundreds of Congolese soldiers and police officers, along with their families, were transferred from the rebel-controlled town of Goma in eastern Congo to the capital Kinshasa, the International ...

African leaders must commit to ending the violence, which requires focusing attention on justice reform and survivor-led ...

Nowhere in the world is the Roman Catholic Church growing faster than in Africa, a continent Francis showered with attention.

Rwanda escorted the troops of a Southern African force through Rwandan territory to Tanzania on Tuesday as they pulled out from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda's foreign minister and army ...

The foreign ministers of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo met this week in Washington D.C., in talks facilitated by the U.S. government, as part of renewed efforts to end the ongoing ...

The emerging crisis in eastern DR Congo and especially around the city of Goma, in the province of North Kivu, has worrying implications for cholera in the region. The area around Goma has been ...

Bonobos, which are among our closest living relatives, live in rare societies where females tend to outrank males, even ...

In Zambia, truck drivers and sex workers have high rates of being HIV positive —- and are at high risk of contracting the ...

For me, the 100th anniversary of Virunga National Park is the fruit of resistance. A peaceful resistance led by local ...

In the last two weeks of February, humanitarian agencies reported 895 cases of conflict-related rape as M23 rebels advanced ...

According to Denis Sassou Nguesso, "it is important to emphasize that May 9 will be a historic day not only for the Russian people, but also for the peoples of the whole world who defeated Nazism and ...

Denis Sassou Nguesso added that he had taken part in a number of BRICS meetings, the latest of which took place in Russia ...