Four locals share their favorite spots, from cafés with views of rolling hills to cutting-edge galleries and markets where ...

The United States regularly keeps citizens abreast of any concerns regarding travel to foreign countries. This week, the Department of State issued a number of travel warnings for Americans. On ...

On July 15, 1994, an unprecedented 250,000 Rwandan refugees crossed from Gisenyi (now Rubavu) into Goma, in what was then Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo--DRC).

CIVICUS speaks with Claude Iguma, a mining governance expert with a PhD in Social Sciences, who is based in Bukavu, South Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).On 27 June, the ...

In the north of Mozambique, Al-Shabaab have waged a brutal insurgency since 2017, leading to beheadings, rapes, and burned villages, even as recent as reports dated 2024. The fight over liquified ...

The AFC/M23 rebel movement has accused Congolese government forces of killing four of its compatriots in what it described as a demonstration of "warlike intentions," despite ongoing peace efforts ...

Uganda has reopened its border crossings with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), six months after sealing off key routes ...

M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo recently allowed the BBC to visit a huge mining site under their control which is vital to the production of the world's mobile phones - and over its ...

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