RWANDA-BACKED rebels have captured large parts of eastern Congo’s largest city, including its airport, the United Nations said today, as Rwandan President Paul Kagame joined calls for a ceasefire in ...

If they lived on or passed through other people's land, they were required to pay tribute. During the 13 years between the 1959 Hutu revolution in Rwanda and the 1972 Burundian civil war, hundreds of ...

MARC VANDEPITTE looks at dangerous developments in a war that has killed millions, but attracts little attention in the West ...

A fierce mother figure as well as a goddess, Ezili has been a revered Vodou spirit since the Haitian Revolution. Here dancers prepare for a midnight ceremony in her honor. Certain images and ...

Rwanda denies supporting the M23 and says its aim is to tackle the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), an armed group primarily composed of Hutu militants formed in the wake of ...

Rwanda denies supporting the M23 and says its aim is to tackle the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), an armed group primarily composed of Hutu militants formed in the wake of the ...

Iran has purchased Russian-made Sukhoi-35 fighter jets, a senior Revolutionary Guards commander said on Monday, amid Western ...

What we are witnessing is nothing short of a revolution inside the U.S. government.” When Politico, normally the purveyor of Beltway both-siderism, sounds more alarmed than many Democrats ...

Mr ‘Folabi Lawal, of blessed memory, told me this fascinating story sometime in 1998. He was the THISDAY bureau chief in Abuja, officially designated as deputy editor, nation’s capital. Mr ...