A joint summit of leaders from eastern and southern Africa is underway in Tanzania as African governments try to find a ...

Thousands of families have been displaced by violence in eastern Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels last month seized the key city of Goma in a blitz offensive in the mineral-rich region ...

A century-old Omaha nonprofit that receives federal funding found itself caught up in a political firestorm when Elon Musk ...

The 5th edition of the Lake Chad Basin Governors’ Forum has re-echoed its commitment to advancing stabilisation, recovery, ...

Missiles are flying above civilians' homes as fighters fire heavy artillery in Goma's city centre, an International Committee ...

The rift is a long line of mountains, volcanoes, valleys, and lakes that mark the boundary between ancient tectonic plates ...

Moving, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past week.

Guatemalan soldiers of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo secure the evacuation of their non essential civil personnel in Goma on January 25, ...

The U.N peacekeeping force, also known as MONUSCO, entered Congo more than two decades ago and has around 14,000 peacekeepers on the ground. South Africa’s defense minister, Angie Motshekga, was ...

On Saturday, Congo’s army said it fended off an M23 offensive towards Goma with the help of its allied forces, including U.N. troops and soldiers from the Southern African Development Community ...