Since January, the M23 rebel movement has seized Goma and Bukavu — two key cities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) — and since set up to govern for the long term in the regions under its ...

M23 fighters, backed by Rwanda, continue to advance in eastern DR Congo. While the rebels are outnumbered by the Congolese ...

Comme chaque semaine, Africanews revient sur les temps forts de l'actualité de ce lundi 10 mars, dans son magazine hebdomadaire Africanews Today.

In the late 1950s Pan-African activist Andrée Blouin contributed to Sékou Touré’s campaign for independence in Guinea, then ...

Leaders of the Arab League have agreed to Egypt’s $53 billion, five-year proposal to rebuild the Gaza Strip without ...

Mexico border, including a Stryker brigade combat team — this despite border crossings having sharply dropped in recent weeks ...

Jazz, politics, continents collide in Oscar-nominated 'Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat' The year 1960 is referred ... Kwame Nkrumah, to Congo's first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, became global ...

Johan Grimonprez's film charts both the hopes and the tragedies of Africa's freedom movements in the shadow of the Cold War, ...

Andreé Blouin was erased from history despite her pivotal role in African independence. Today she has a book prize named ...

Kotoka International Airport – in Accra has been seen an insult by Pan-Africanists and a painful reminder of the collusion between the country’s political elite and foreign powers.