Pushed to the peripheries of the world's news agenda, the recent African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa still delivered a tectonic shift in the continent's most prominent multilateral body.  Mahmoud ...

The African Union commision has new leadership in Djibouti's Mahmoud Ali Youssouf. But how will the AU handle deepening ...

Climate change and conflict are fuelling a resurgence of cholera in Africa, with progress toward elimination undermined by ...

India’s Opioid Kings, a new documentary from the BBC World Service’s award-winning BBC Eye Investigations team, has revealed ...

Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

Advocates call for artist boycotts and public pressure on Rwanda over the resource-driven conflict in the DRC.

Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé, a pioneer of African cinema with a career spanning 50 years, has died at age 84.

M23 took provincial capital Goma at the end of January, before pushing south in an escalation of violence that has already ...

Amazon workers at a North Carolina warehouse will finish voting on a union. Employees say the company “mobilized an army” ...

Thousands flee as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels advance on Bukavu, Congo's second-largest eastern city, amid reports of looting and violence.

Multiple sources within Ruto and Mudavadi circles intimated that the agreement by both leaders secured the Foreign Affairs CS ...

Scores of dignitaries and heads of state from across the continent have gathered at the AU headquarters in Ethiopia for the ...