DRC and Rwanda together supply around half the world's coltan, the metallic ore that is vital in making phones and laptops.

A single image captures the grim task facing those who needed to find space for the dead after a spasm of violence in Central ...

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The Africa Business Leadership and Investment Summit (ABLIS) 2025 has been relocated to Accra, Ghana, due to escalating security concerns in East Africa. The event, now scheduled for 21-25 April 2025, ...

The families of South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are ...

Thousands of families have been displaced by violence in eastern Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels last month seized the key ...

Approximately six million people have died in the conflict in the eastern D.R.C. since 1996. For decades, numerous armed ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council today agreed by consensus to launch an urgent fact-finding mission and commission of ...