The U.N. human rights chief has accused Rwanda-backed rebels who seized a second major city in eastern Congo of killing ...

Since Goma fell, I’ve lived in fear. I don’t dare leave my house.” These are the words of Justin Shamutwa Masumbuko, general ...

Yesterday, Rwandan-backed M23 rebels announced the capture of the city of Bukavu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Their arrival into the second largest city in eastern Congo follows the fall of ...

The Peace and Security Council of the African Union came to existence in 2004, and with a manifested mandate to address the looming threats to international peace and security on the African soil. The ...

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The Texas Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an ethics complaint against Attorney General Ken Paxton, ending a nearly three-year battle over whether the state’s top legal officer ...

When Leopold II, King of Belgium, set about creating his own colony in the Congo, he used elephants - and barbaric cruelty - to clear the impenetrable jungle ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court could jeopardize trials and investigations at the world’s only permanent global tribunal for war ...

The acclaimed film director’s new project is a photographic exhibition about mass demonstration – and concludes a very personal journey ...

Yes, Voodoo is still practiced in New Orleans and will be on display for tourists visiting for the Super Bowl. But it’s not what you might have pictured from the movies… Voodoo plays a vibrant role in ...

António Guterres made the “special appeal for peace” ahead of two major meetings to address the Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group’s brutal offensive across the region. “We are at a pivotal moment and it ...