More than 700 million people live in the continent’s urban areas. That number is expected to double by 2050, when…
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Photos by Reuters Somalia, which has been engulfed in conflict since 2009, now has two systems struggling to exert control…
Across Africa, so-called “ungoverned spaces” serve as breeding grounds for terrorist organizations as well as transit points for weapons, drugs…
Months after M23 rebels launched an offensive and seized the two largest cities in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo,…
Decades of armed conflicts in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have produced a familiar cycle of hope for…
Amboma Safari and his family spent the night under their bed on April 11 as gunfire and bomb blasts echoed…
The runway at Goma International Airport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is still littered with abandoned military vehicles…
Speaking to the United Nations Security Council in February, the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Thérèse…
The Islamic State group’s Somalia branch has become a crucial hub for financing terror across Africa, the Middle East and…
As Rwanda-backed M23 rebels advance, intense fighting has displaced hundreds of thousands of people in the eastern provinces of the…