As UNESCO prepares to appoint a new Director-General in November 2025, attention is turning to the candidates vying to ...

Genocide ideology continues to threaten peace and stability in the Great Lakes region of Africa, particularly in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo). Rooted in Europe’s colonial ...

Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi has sought out a deal with the Trump administration, offering mineral access in return for ...

In the glittering timeline of East African music, few bands shine as brightly as Les Wanyika—the group whose hits like “Sina ...

Uganda hosts nearly two million refugees—one of the highest globally. Kampala is home to 157,244 refugees, about 8.3 percent ...

The voices of Congolese refugees living in Canada are bringing attention to a largely overlooked humanitarian crisis ...

T he Congo Basin’s hunter-gatherer people have the secret to living well with the forest. While doing fieldwork in 2020, I remember walking with Indigenous elders Ferdinand Mbit ...

Deep in the heart of Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Selah Abong’o froze, convinced she was about to encounter something out of legend: a mokele-mbembe, Congo’s mythical dinosaur. In 2003 ...

RUBAYA, Congo (AP) — Nestled in the green hills of Masisi territory in Congo, at the artisanal Rubaya mining site, hundreds ...