Since flag independence from Belgium on June 30, 1960 and since the gruesome murder of its founding president, Patrice ...

The DRC, with its vast territory and abundant mineral wealth has become a key battleground for external powers whose interests in the country’s resources have exacerbated internal strife.

The UN mission in eastern Congo was initially meant to be quickly concluded at the request of Kinshasa. However, the M23 ...

Kenyan President William Ruto, the East African Community (EAC) chair, convened a virtual summit on 29 January to discuss the ...

Panelists discuss how a second Trump administration could reshape U.S.-Africa relations, whether security, economic, and diplomatic engagement will deepen or decline, and how to define the U.S.

The foreign ministry described this initiative as a significant continuation of Russia’s ongoing efforts to help alleviate the energy crisis in the Central African Republic, which it considers a frien ...

South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the ...

As fighting intensifies between the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group and Congolese forces, UN chief of Peace Operations ...

the Republic of the Congo, Kenya, and Chad, where Abdelatty visited in December to discuss counterterrorism cooperation and trade ties. The flurry of diplomatic activity underscores Egypt's renewed ...

The latest fighting has heightened an already dire humanitarian crisis in the region, forcing half a million people from ...

Rwanda-backed fighters were in control of almost all of the DR Congo city of Goma Wednesday where residents were re-emerging ...

An armed group backed by Rwandan troops took control of the besieged Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma's airport on ...