In the previous article in this series, we looked at how MDR-PARMEHUTU became a de-facto single party from 1963 after eliminating opposition political parties. Its oppressive policies would over time ...

Closed banks, diverted trade routes, confusing customs decisions and border closures are ...

Ebola in Uganda is the latest in a trend of outbreaks of viral hemorrhagic fevers in the east African region. Tanzania ...

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

By taking Goma, the M23 and Rwanda crossed a Rubicon, as Kinshasa’s leaders cannot brook an all-out invasion of North and ...

U.K. authorities are punishing Rwanda over its support of the rebels who now control two major cities in eastern Congo ...

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni on Friday denied his troops intended to fight Rwanda-backed forces in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, after sending troops to secure an eastern ...

Rwanda waged the First Congo War against Zaire with the help of other African states (most significantly Uganda, but also Angola and Burundi), who had their own security concerns related to Mobutu ...

Last year, Congo’s government reached a short-lived ceasefire deal with Rwanda that was mediated by Angola, and the U.S. is urging the warring parties to return to talk under that deal. Rodney ...

Rwanda and Uganda. France’s U.N. Ambassador Nicolas De Riviere urged the council to quickly adopt a draft resolution circulated by his country two weeks ago that reaffirms support for Congo’s ...

Kinshasa, its capital, is 1,500km from the provinces (South Kivu, North Kivu and Ituri) that border the other Great Lakes countries (Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda). The advance of M23, a Rwandan ...