Increased violence and political friction in South Sudan threatened its fragile peace process, said a United Nations rights ...

The escalating conflicts in Sudan and the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have deepened the humanitarian ...

General United Nations Headquarters 405 East 42nd Street New York, NY, 10017 Dear Mr. Secretary-General: We, writers, artists, journalists, lawyers, researchers, civil society members, Genocide ...

Fighting by Islamic State and other terrorist groups over minerals and power has led to widespread killings and rape in the DRC. Disease, child slavery and Christian persecution stalk the population.

AFRICA: Andrée Blouin was a political activist and writer from the Central African Republic. Until recently, her ...

Government's planned mission to the US has stalled because South Africa is struggling to get a foot in the door in Washington ...

The South African Independent Electoral Commission ( IEC) is set to discuss the possibility of electronic voting (e-voting) in the country’s future elections. The feasibility of the method will be ...

At the 58th regular session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, Caritas Internationalis highlighted the widespread effects of ...

DR Congo offers USD 5 million bounty for the arrest of three M23 militia leaders; the group captured Goma and Bukavu towns in ...

An estimated 82.1 million people in East and Central Africa are currently food insecure and in urgent need of humanitarian as ...

DAR ES SALAAM: THE SOUTHERN Africa Development Community (SADC) member states have been urged to continue implementing ...

Local church sources in Bukavu, a city in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which reportedly fell in the hands of March 23 Movement (M23) rebel forces mid-February have painted a ...