Rwanda’s Attack on Congo Could Plunge Africa Into War
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been invaded by Rwanda five times. The first two times (from 1996-1997 and 1998-2003), it led to large, bloody wars that engulfed ...
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U.N. Says Hundreds of Women and Children Raped in DR Congo Insurgency Disaster
M23 insurgents in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) captured two more towns and reached the airport in the provincial capital of Bukavu on Friday, raising fears of a ...
U.S.-Africa Policy Should Be Driven by Trade, Not Aid
For decades, U.S. policy toward Africa has underdelivered or outright failed for both Washington and Africa—and the Trump administration appears to have noticed. On Feb. 3, it announced that it ...
Kenya’s Empty Promises on Protecting Women
NAIROBI—Last September, Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei lost her life in Kenya at the hands of an intimate partner. Cheptegei’s partner, Dickson Ndiema, poured petrol on her and set her on ...
Uganda Confirms Outbreak of Ebola in Capital City
Ugandan officials on Thursday confirmed an Ebola outbreak in the capital city of Kampala, with one confirmed death so far. It is the ninth Ebola outbreak Uganda has suffered since ...
Netflix Africa Hires Scripted Content Chief As Tendeka Matatu Exits
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix‘s Africa content team has reshuffled with ex-Amazon exec Kaye-Ann Williams brought in to oversee TV and movies as Tendeka Matatu exits. Williams takes on the newly-created Director of ...
The Lessons of South Africa’s Stolen Land
Thirty years after the end of apartheid, South Africa remains a troubled country with glaring racial disparities in income, employment, and access to everything from adequate housing to drinking water ...
Study: Nearly 400 Million Christians Persecuted Globally, Islamism and Communism Main Drivers
The Christian aid organization Open Doors published its annual World Watch List – a ranking of the most dangerous places in the world to practice the Christian faith – on ...
Trump Is Quitting the Paris Agreement. Poor Countries Should, Too.
At some point in the coming months, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will almost certainly pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement, like he did at the start of ...
