South Africa had tried to avoid having its troops leave through Rwanda, which it thought would give Kigali the satisfaction ...

At 2:00 a.m. evacuees assembled and waited for their names to be called to get on one of the boats; if your name wasn’t called, you were instructed to assemble the next night. It was three anxious ...

As he sat down in his rented house in an estate in Kenya's capital Nairobi, Claude Misingi was deeply lost in thoughts, ...

More war is also leading to more hunger. There are now 28 million people in the DRC facing severe hunger according to the UN ...

U.S. lawmakers have introduced legislation that could block International Monetary Fund support for some Central African ...

At a time when climate anxiety and biodiversity loss dominate the global conversation, IIASA had the honor of hosting Emmanuel de Merode, Director of ...

The joy of finding an Easter basket filled with food and gifts is something you never forget. Even greater is the feeling of ...

The joy of finding an Easter basket filled with food and gifts is something you never forget. Even greater is the feeling of ...

For Virunga has been, going on two decades, a war zone. In 1994 the horrific ethnic conflict in neighboring Rwanda that led to the genocide of Tutsis by Hutus spilled across the border into Congo.

The war has worsened conditions for civilians as the M23 rebel group has seized more territory in eastern DRC.