Examining when South Africa acts or the President issues statements on civil conflicts taking place across Africa shows an apparent correlation with economic interests.

Congo's former President Joseph Kabila has initiated talks with opposition politicians about the country's political future ...

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...

Longtime foes Ethiopia and Eritrea could be headed towards war, officials in a restive Ethiopian region at the centre of the ...

Observers say the DRC has been inspired by Washington’s proposal to support Ukraine in its war against Russia in exchange for a minerals deal.

The United States spent decades responding to conflicts and disease in Africa. The continent is now expected to be the ...

The economy of the capital of the North Kivu province, has ground to a halt after being seized by the rebel movement and its ...

Despite the risks from deadly armed groups roaming the countryside, Judith Kahindo walks alone every day to her isolated cocoa plantation in the war-torn North Kivu region of the eastern Democratic ...

beginning his career as aide-de-camp to now-President Paul Kagame during his insurgency in the Rwandan Civil War. He led Rwandan-backed rebel forces during the First Congo War that saw the ...

committing human rights abuses and bringing Congo to the brink of civil war. The ex-president has been equally withering in private, according to sources that either spoke to Kabila directly or ...

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.