Congo’s president says he is going to launch a unity government, as violence spreads across the country’s east and pressure ...

Rather than following natural terrains or historical boundaries, many of its borders are strikingly straight in some areas and jagged in others, cutting through mountains, rivers and even communities.

Washington-on-the-Brazos birthed a nation in 1836 and now it's being reborn with a $54 million renovation that will change ...

Source: This is a Crazy World I know it has always been like this, but watching the news these days almost makes one despair ...

Since the African continent was divided at the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, the struggle for its wealth has played out on two fronts. The first was political, as European powers, starting with King ...

Advocates call for artist boycotts and public pressure on Rwanda over the resource-driven conflict in the DRC.

President Donald Trump wants to give the White House direct control of independent federal regulators such as the Securities ...

Rwanda-backed rebels have captured two major cities in Congo’s mineral-rich east after a major escalation in their yearslong fighting against Congolese forces ...

Unsurprisingly, some in Eastern Europe view the current US-Russia talks over Ukraine’s future as a revival of this kind of ...

China is reaping the rewards of its massive mining investment in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the form of surging ...

Rumba Royale is set in 1959 Leopoldville, the capital of Belgian Congo, which is now called Kinshasa. The movie plays out ...

Andrée Blouin (1921–1986) was a central figure in the struggles for decolonization that swept Africa in the 1950s and ’60s, ...