The report verified 41,370 grave violations against children in 2024 – including 36,221 committed in 2024 and 5,149 committed ...

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The United States has deported five immigrants from Vietnam, Jamaica, Cuba, Yemen and Laos to Eswatini, a small country in ...

Conflict analysts have suggested that Islamic state militants in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been able to operate with increasing impunity due to the conflict with the allegedly ...

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 ...

Colonial policies had deliberately administered the Arab-Muslim North separately from the African, Christian, and Animist South, fostering deep-seated mistrust and inequality that post-independence ...

Kinshasa will host the first-ever World Music and Tourism Festival, under high patronage of Félix Antoine Tshisekedi ...

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 ...

Fighters with the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), which has ties to IS, killed civilians in the area of Irumu in the east of the country bordering Uganda. The attack comes as eastern Congo may see an ...

India passed China as the world's most-populous country back in 2023 and is on course to approach 1.7 billion people by 2050.

Balingene Kibetsi, a woman in her 60s with a child strapped to her back, stood beside the ruins of her wooden house in the small town of Sake, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.