Critical minerals factor into the fight. By Ruth Maclean Rebels backed by Rwanda are seizing huge tracts of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Their progress has been swift and stunning.

French forces have withdrawn from Chad after 65 years, although France maintains that military cooperation will continue.

In Central Africa lies a country, almost a subcontinent, roughly the size of all of Western Europe—one of the richest countries in terms of resources, yet one of the poorest in terms of resource gain ...

Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has vowed “a vigorous and coordinated response” against a rebel alliance that has besieged swathes of the nation’s mineral-rich east ...

Trump's proposal that the U.S. “take over” the Gaza Strip and resettle its Palestinian residents was swiftly rejected by ...

One day after the U.S. Postal Service said in a notice that it would stop accepting inbound parcels from the China and Hong ...

has advocated for the recharge of the shrinking Lake Chad from water bodies in Nigeria, Central African Republic (CAR) and the Republican of Congo to enable it restore its age-old critical ...

More than 700 people have been killed and 2,800 injured in just five days since fighting escalated in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between January 26-30, UN Secretary-General ...

When I first drove into the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, it was hard to tell I had entered a conflict zone. Goma residents filled the streets a few miles from the border ...

Musk, Trump and some Republican lawmakers have targeted the U.S. aid and development agency, which oversees humanitarian, ...

With an Ontario election campaign underway, Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie talks to Toronto Star political columnist Martin Regg Cohn at the Democracy Forum at Toronto Metropolitan University on ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — An Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings in Sweden has been killed in a shooting near Stockholm, authorities said Thursday. Salwan Momika, 38, staged several burnings ...