For years, Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo demanded direct negotiations with Congolese ...

Africa's beautiful lakes not only serve as key sources of water, food and transportation, but also act as borders—both ...

The East African Community (EAC), in collaboration with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the European Union (EU), today launched the EAC4Nature Project, a ...

The project aims to strengthen regional cooperation, integrate nature-based solutions into the East African Community's (EAC) climate policy and strategy ...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has consistently predicted that East Africa will be the continent’s fastest-growing ...

Uganda's role in eastern DR Congo has largely gone under the radar during recent violence but its complex approach aims to ...

Analysis - ISWAP's enhanced operations and use of drone attacks represent a turning point for counter-terrorism in the region ...

Deep within Africa’s Great Rift Valley, Virunga National Park is home to some of the continent’s most active volcanoes, ...

The Feb. 16, 1861, visit was while Lincoln was enroute to his first inauguration and while the nation was on the brink of ...

The African Union on Wednesday welcomed peace talks that took place a day earlier in Qatar between the leaders of the ...

Fighting in the eastern DRC continues as the M23 rebel group consolidates control over the Lake Kivu region and clashes with ...

fully controlled the east of Africa’s second-largest country. Kinshasa, its capital, is 1,500km from the provinces (South Kivu, North Kivu and Ituri) that border the other Great Lakes countries ...