Three prison guards were held hostage by inmates inside a jail with police swarming in to prevent a jail break after a riot. ...

Rwanda has pulled out of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), saying the organisation repeatedly ...

Accused of backing M23, ex-president Joseph Kabila returns via rebel zones, staging comebacks to challenge his successor, ...

For the second year since the war with Israel broke out, no Muslims in Gaza were able to travel to Saudi Arabia to perform ...

Less spending, higher prices and fewer animal sacrifices subdued the usual festive mood as the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha ...

Creating facts on the ground to gain leverage is typical of Rwanda’s president, according to one admirer, who describes him ...

More than three decades on, Mr Kagame has gone from the darling of donors to Africa’s arch-exponent of realpolitik. He has ...

The Congolese government has banned the media from reporting on the activities of former President Joseph Kabila and ...

On June 3, the Islamic State’s Central Africa Province (ISCAP) attempted an unsuccessful suicide bombing targeting Christian ...

During a tense Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, U.S. President Donald Trump held up a printout of an article that included a screenshot he claimed showed mass burials ...

Russian forces may be showing the world something of the future of war crimes here, combining inexpensive drones, explosives, ...