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

Rwanda-backed Congolese rebels from the M23 movement have announced the capture of the major city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Reports indicate casualties among ...

Zimbabwean art historian Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti travelled by road to five southern African countries – Botswana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia, Mozambique and Zambia – in pursuit of hidden ...

At the same time it maps and gathers voices that are not often encountered ... despite the colonial demarcations separating us, and the ethnic differences. Tinashe Mushakavanhu: Exploring southern ...

Police forces and courts are collecting less data on the ethnicity of criminals than at any time in the past 15 years amid fears of being called racist, figures have shown. Senior Tory MPs ...

Critical minerals factor into the fight.

While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

It is also a worrying sign that M23’s patron, Rwanda, may be willing to use its strength to redraw the map of the region ... and to protect Tutsis, the ethnic group partly extinguished by ...

He also suggested millions of displaced Palestinians resettle in “areas where the leaders currently say no.” By some, Trump has been accused of propagating the idea of “ethnic cleansing ...

It is vital to stay true to the bedrock of international law. It is essential to avoid any form of ethnic cleansing," Guterres told a previously planned meeting of a U.N. committee. "We must ...