Under the outlines of a potential and still sketchy grand bargain, minerals excavated in DR Congo could eventually go to ...

Strategic interests link Israel and Iran to African states. Analysts say threats loom for volatile African nations if the ...

The deal while hailed internationally as offering a big breakthrough for the Great Lakes Region, tells just half the story of ...

The agreement marks a breakthrough in talks and intends to attract billions of dollars of Western investment to a region rich ...

The world’s lawlessness was made visible in August 2013, when Syria’s dictator Bashar al-Assad used sarin gas to kill 1,400 people in a suburb of Damascus. Barack Obama had warned that chemical ...

Economies in fragile and conflict-affected regions have become "the epicenter of global poverty and food insecurity," the bank said.

Meanwhile, the Navy renames a ship to reflect a new warrior ethos, Ukraine confirms banned chemical weapons in its war zone, ...

Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) have signed a U.S.-brokered peace agreement aimed at ending their long-standing conflict, ...

Congolese and Rwandan officials are expected to sign a peace deal in Washington on Friday following a diplomatic push by US ...

The foreign ministers for Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo signed a U.S.-brokered peace deal to end the ...