Congolese troops with support from Burundi's army appeared on Friday to be holding back a push south by Rwandan-backed rebels ...

Burundi faces serious climate and environmental challenges. The biggest is the country's overdependence on the use of biomass ...

Rwanda-backed rebels aiming to gain power have already captured Goma, a key city in eastern DRC. They have vowed to advance ...

Tanzania has signed a $2.2bn deal with two Chinese firms to build a standard gauge rail link between the port of Dar es ...

The House of Representatives is open to discussions on whether Nigeria should abolish the death penalty, Benjamin Kalu said.

A study by WHO-AFRO evaluating the five-year progress of the implementation of the regional cholera prevention and control ...

The Southern African Development Community intervention force in the mission in the DRC is outgunned and outmanned.

Members of the M23 rebel group gather to supervise Congolese potential recruits for the M23 rebel group before being taken to ...

Dar es Salaam. The governments of Tanzania and Burundi have signed an agreement to commence the construction of a 282-kilometre modern railway between Uvinza and Musongati.The standard gauge railway ...

President Paul Kagame said Rwanda was ready for "confrontation" as he rejected criticism over his backing for M23 rebels who ...

The fall of Goma in North Kivu marks a temporary low point in eastern DRC’s decades-long turmoil.