The DRC seeks to offer key minerals to the U.S., but rebel forces and China largely control access to these vital rare earth resources, which are said to be worth trillions of dollars.

As M23 rebels take Bukavu and the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo worsens, Michel Tissier, peace advocate ...

Kenya’s economic expansion has generated geopolitical tensions that threaten long-term cooperation and broader stability in the EAC, particularly as Kenya takes the helm of the bloc instead of the ...

Despite the risks from deadly armed groups roaming the countryside, Judith Kahindo walks alone every day to her isolated ...

New analysis from Education Cannot Wait indicates that 234 million crisis-affected children require urgent support to access ...

The Banyene family’s return to Sake, a town in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was far from a homecoming.

It is not Rwanda's policies that unsettle Western powers, but Rwanda's defiance of a long-standing hierarchical relationship, ...

The rapprochement between Kenya and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which culminated in the DRC joining ... i The DRC’s addition to the EAC more than doubled the area of the regional ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is 95% Christian ... secure and prosperous Congo would do wonders for the global economy and regional security." Paul Tilsley is a veteran correspondent who ...

The M23 is one of the most important actors operating in the DRC territory, allegedly supported by Rwanda. While the M23’s ...

A delegation from the Forum of Parliamentarians in the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (PF-ICGLR) is in Uganda as part of a fact-finding mission on peace and security in the Eastern ...

Democratic Republic of Congo, which is rich in cobalt, lithium and uranium among other minerals, has been fighting Rwanda-backed M23 rebels who have seized swathes of its territory this year.