In 1889, the British journalist Henry Morton Stanley stumbled out of the forests of Central Africa into the town of Katwe, a ...

The vilest scramble for loot that has ever disfigured the history of human conscience” is how Joseph Conrad described colonial-era concessions granted to private companies for Congo’s natural resource ...

The US-Ukraine agreement on mineral reserves, if signed, will be somewhat similar to the penal agreements that European ...

As part of a broader international response, Mr. Diab Allouh announced that Egypt would host a reconstruction conference for ...

Despite two decades of relative peace, the country has the smallest Army of anywhere in Africa, with just 1,500 soldiers ...

A documentary film looks at the police raids on pro-Palestine students at Columbia University and the movement that ...

Long overlooked or stereotyped, African contemporary art is finally receiving global attention, writes Wim Pijbes, former ...

Framing the population momentum In 1800, the world had 1 billion people. Today we have 8.2 billion people on the ...

Makano works with witty artistic imagery in his new body of work to elicit his audience’s attention to the suffering and ...

This is according to Philbert Gakwenzire, the president of Ibuka, the umbrella association of genocide survivors, who faults various external forces - some tied to Rwanda's colonial past, and others ...

US President Donald Trump argued before Congress in favor of reducing the budget for USAID, the agency responsible for international development assistance. Illustrating his point, Trump singled out ...