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 ...

For several centuries, the United States was a slaveholding nation, until a civil war officially brought an end to the practice. Here’s a look back at this dark chapter in the country’s history.

A leading African priest says Africa’s history can be explained as “a history of extraversion and violence,”- the idea that ...

At the 38th African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, leaders discuss the urgent need for reparations and address the ongoing ...

Panic and looting are sweeping through eastern Congo’s second largest city as residents flee by the thousands to escape the ...

The capture of Bukavu would represent an unprecedented expansion of territory under the M23's control since the latest ...

Human rights advocates and politicians from the region say Russian mercenaries are believed to be behind the disappearance of ...

There's a new effort to award the Congressional Gold Medal to 200,000 African Americans who served in the Union Army during ...

The war erupting in the Democratic Republic of Congo has its roots in the Rwandan genocide and the bloodiest war of the 21st ...

The AU Peace and Security Council meeting in Addis Ababa crystallized tensions between the Democratic Republic of Congo and ...