The effort to bring the matter to a major American city was led by a coalition of human rights and abolitionist groups.

A Texas pipeline company's lawsuit accusing Greenpeace of defamation, disruptions and attacks during protests against the ...

We are shocked by the sheer number of deceased individuals retrieved from the streets and Lake Kivu,” the experts said.

Until now, the international response to the rapidly escalating crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where the ...

Congo’s president says he is going to launch a unity government, as violence spreads across the country’s east and pressure ...

USAID supporters say President Donald Trump's freeze on the international aid agency is bad for business and national security.

Seventy Christians were beheaded by ISIS-linked militants in the DRC on February 13. The attackers, from the Allied ...

A mysterious illness, dubbed "Disease X," has infected at least 400 people and caused the deaths of dozens of children in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Pushed to the peripheries of the world's news agenda, the recent African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa still delivered a tectonic shift in the continent's most prominent multilateral body.  Mahmoud ...

UN special rapporteurs on Friday called on all parties to the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to treat the bodies of the deceased with respect and dignity and ensure proper ...

Climate change and conflict are fuelling a resurgence of cholera in Africa, with progress toward elimination undermined by ...

The fighting in recent weeks has raised fears of a repeat of the Second Congo War, from 1998 to 2003, which drew in multiple ...