Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

Abstract Togo, a small West African nation, has long been a case study of autocratic persistence under the prolonged rule of ...

M23 rebels have made rapid advances in the latest bout of conflict that has long-dogged the mineral-rich east.

The 2024 crisis exposed structural faults at the core of the West African regional body. At 50, can the once-great ...

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This long history has left a grim record: assassinated kings, exiled monarchs, overthrown presidents, and ruling parties that ...

Today in History for July 17: In 1505, future church reformer, Martin Luther entered the Augustinian monastic order at Erfurt in present day eastern Germany. He was 21. In 1674, the second census of ...

Five years since the Mali coup of 2020, the key lesson is that the international community must move beyond the view of coups as isolated events.

Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda have signed a peace deal brokered by the Trump administration. The World's Host ...

From critical minerals to M23 and grassroots exclusion, experts weigh in on whether the US-brokered deal can succeed.

Rwanda's army played a "critical" role alongside the M23 armed group in an offensive in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...

Congo's government and Rwanda-backed rebels said on Thursday they would send delegations back to Qatar for peace talks, as ...