One of the most heart-warming stories in Nigeria last week was that seven governors, only three of them from Nigeria, met in Maiduguri to push forward with concerted efforts to salvage the Lake Chad ...

Rwanda is facing mounting international pressure over its role in the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as the ...

RWANDA has the best economy in Africa and receives over US$1 billion international grants every year from the European Union (EU), the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US). But wait until ...

Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.

M23 now controls nearly all of North Kivu and the province’s vast mineral wealth—including tin (cassiterite), tantalum ...

Widow Francine Nsengiyumva and her three children have little to eat and sleep on the hard ground, but like many others at a ...

The U.N. says Rwanda-backed rebels are expanding their presence in eastern Congo after capturing the region’s major city.

More than 700 people have been killed and 2,800 injured in just five days since fighting escalated in the east of the ...

The Rwandan-backed M23 group on Friday advanced south after seizing the biggest city in mineral-rich eastern DR Congo, in ...

The Rwanda-backed armed group M23 vowed on Thursday to march on the DR Congo capital, Kinshasa, as its fighters made further ...

After seizing the biggest city in eastern DR Congo, the Rwandan-backed armed group M23 was advancing south through a ...

Critical minerals factor into the fight.