Rwandan-backed rebels gained ground in eastern Congo on Wednesday despite the unilateral ceasefire they declared earlier this ...

The capture of Goma, the main city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, last week by the M23 rebel group follows a ...

Welcome back to another edition of My Take 5, your weekly round-up of top international news. Conflict in eastern DR Congo raises the spectre of the old Congo wars, Ukraine continues to endure Russian ...

NOT so long ago, the Zambian government invited Irene Khan, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression, to ...

Some tourists choose to visit sites where tragedies have occurred such as Chernobyl, Hiroshima and the killing fields in ...

A little over a week ago, the town of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) fell to the Congolese rebel group, M23. The response to its fall by the DR Congo government, the United ...

Trump on Tuesday detailed a plan to build new settlements for Palestinians outside the Gaza Strip, and for the U.S. to take ...

The genocide the U.S. says is under way in Sudan started like this: In 2002, bandits attacked a caravan led by a young herder ...

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Up to 167 women have been raped and killed after prisoners escaped jail in the DRC, according to a UN document seen by the BBC.