The burden that Patrice Lumumba, prime minister of the Republic of the Congo, assumed was an awesome one. On his young, slim ...

Now there is a much greater recognition of the harm Belgium caused in Belgian Congo and Rwanda. Under Belgian rule the ...

Johan Grimonprez uses archival footage of the period to expose the CIA-backed assassination of Congo leader Patrice Lumumba ...

China's minister of foreign affairs embarks on what has now become a customary odyssey across Africa. The tradition began in the late 1980s and sees Beijing's top diplomat visit several African ...

China's minister of foreign affairs embarks on what has now become a customary odyssey across Africa. The tradition began in ...

The 46th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union (AU) meets Wednesday and Thursday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to prepare for the Conference of Heads of State and Government of ...

Sahra Halgan has been singing for freedom for her whole life, both from the front during the Somali civil war in the 1980s to stages around the world.

Outgoing AUC chairman, Moussa Faki Mahamat cautions about the difficulty of AU financing, saying it weighs heavily on its ...

Prime Cabinet Minister Musalia Mudavadi has urged African countries to vote for the Kenyan candidate  Raila Odinga as the ...

The teams behind "Sugarcane," "Black Box Diaries," "Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat" and "Porcelain War" discuss the urgency of their work ...