When the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then known as Zaire) rebelled against their brutal and corrupt ...

In order to stem the flood of arms into Sudan, human rights campaigners are urging the UN Security Council to extend the ...

The swift fall of the Syrian dictator Bashar Assad is a lesson on the fragility of alliances between autocrats.  When ...

Two dozen assailants armed with weapons and machetes launched an assault on Chad's presidential palace which the government ...

This is an edited excerpt from the book Smuts & Mandela: The Men Who Made South Africa, written by Roger Southall and ...

The threat from militant Islamist groups in Africa over the past decade has steadily grown—with almost three times the number ...

The ability to forge broad and diverse coalitions is a signature asset of democratic politics, and it is needed now more than ...

The Nigerian military has announced that it thwarted a retaliatory attack by Boko Haram and Islamic State West African Province ...

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The United States determined on Tuesday that members of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias committed ...

North Korea said Tuesday it successfully test-fired a new intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missile, claiming the ...