Rwanda’s severance of diplomatic relations with Belgium has triggered a debate about Belgium’s role in the current conflicts in Africa’s great lakes region. President Paul Kagame accused Belgium of ...

After years of backing the regime accused of fuelling Congo’s crisis, Canada pledged millions in aid to help fix it.

The United States is in talks to invest billions of dollars in mineral-rich Congo and wants to help end a conflict raging in ...

Three Americans convicted for their role in a failed coup in Democratic Republic of Congo last year have had their death ...

Congo’s president has commuted the death sentences of three Americans convicted on charges of participating in a botched coup attempt in the country’s capital of Kinshasa last year. A presidential ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) President Felix Tshisekedi has downgraded the death sentences of three United ...

The death sentences of three U.S. citizens convicted for their role in a failed coup in Democratic Republic of Congo last ...

The memoirs of the Central African revolutionary Andrée Blouin tell the story of a woman who witnessed firsthand the ecstatic ...

Belgian forces conquered Rwanda, a former German colony, in 1916 during the first world war. They got help from nearby ...

These stories, alarming as they may be, are just a glimpse into the upheaval triggered by USAID’s sweeping freeze on funding.

Rwanda’s government has blamed Belgium’s colonial rule for the ethnic divisions that sparked the 1994 genocide.