The dispute reflects a broader debate across Africa over whether colonial legal traditions, including courtroom attire and ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk urged the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group to cease hostilities as he deplored recent ...

Trump has repeatedly touted a running list of eight wars he claims to have personally solved: Armenia-Azerbaijan, DRC-Rwanda, ...

The US's decision to impose sanctions on Kigali's Gasabo Gold Refinery Ltd has once again brought international sanctions policy in the Great Lakes region into focus. Washington presents the measure ...

President Donald Trump took credit for ending an ongoing conflict that he claimed had seen the beheadings of 15 million ...

The rapid spread of a rare Ebola strain through Central and East Africa is testing local public health authorities and ...

The Central African nation remembers the end of a murderous campaign against ethnic Tutsis that killed hundreds of thousands of people. By Zane Irwin As the United States celebrates 250 years of ...

U.N. experts report that all parties in eastern Congo’s conflict are violating peace terms and committing abuses ...

When the presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda met in Washington, D.C., in early December 2025, for a ceremony sealing the peace deal that ended four years of fighting, it was ...

The United States sanctioned Kigali-based Gasabo Gold Refinery Ltd and several executives and affiliated companies for allegedly processing gold smuggled from conflict zones in eastern Democratic ...