A U.S. official says Congo and Rwanda have submitted a draft peace proposal as part of a U.S.-led process that could end ...

In February, rebels conquered eastern Congo’s largest city, forcing displaced people sheltering there to return to homes in ...

Togo leader Faure Gnassingbe has been given the powerful new role of President of the Council of Ministers which has no fixed ...

Of the small handful of papal contenders, an even smaller subset tends flocks in countries at war. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, ...

Gabon began swearing-in on Saturday President-elect Brice Oligui Nguema, who led a coup ending decades of Bongo family rule.

The unprecedented advance by Rwandan-backed M23 rebels, part of a decades-long conflict rooted in the Rwandan genocide, has ...

Gabon's President-elect Brice Oligui Nguema who led a coup ending decades of Bongo family rule will be sworn in Saturday.

He took over leadership of the country in 2001 at the age of just 29, after his father and former coup leader, President ...

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Democratic Republic of Congo has launched a bid to strip former President Joseph Kabila of immunity so he can face trial on ...

A coalition of criminal gangs is close to capturing Haiti’s beleaguered capital of Port-au-Prince. Today, Haiti is grappling ...

The three Utahns accused of participating in a failed coup attempt in the Democratic Republic of Congo appeared in a federal ...