Residents said there was no major fighting while the Kinshasa government vowed to reclaim the city, home to around 3 million people and the capital of North Kivu province bordering Rwanda, which is ...
With the AFCON 2025 draw, schedule, and host cities revealed, Africa’s top teams now know their path. The countdown to ...
Rwanda-backed rebels have captured eastern Congo’s strategic city of Goma, the hub of a region containing trillions of dollars in mineral wealth that remains largely untapped.
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) is strengthening deployment along borders and in ...
A shifting political calculus by sponsors of the M23 rebel group risk triggering another war in the Great Lakes Region, underscoring the importance of African mediators and global partners acting ...
In a drone factory near the city of Yelabuga in Tatarstan, Russia, about 200 African women are employed, most of them between ...
Uganda, meanwhile, which also has troops in eastern Congo to take on Ugandan rebels based there, on Friday said it would ...
Kenyan President William Ruto, the East African Community (EAC) chair, convened a virtual summit on 29 January to discuss the ...
A fresh Ebola outbreak has emerged in Uganda, with a 32-year-old male nurse succumbing to the disease in Kampala. The Ministry of Health confirms the ...
Humanitarian workers in Europe, Latin America and Africa tell openDemocracy about the impact of Trump’s attack on USAID ...
It is the East African country's ninth outbreak since it recorded its first infection of the viral disease in 2000 ...
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels are moving “rapidly” through South Kivu province toward the city of Bukavu in eastern Democratic ...