Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...

Thiery Michel takes an in-depth look at the reign of Mobutu Sese Seko. A man of "modest roots" who had a Catholic upbringing, Mobutu was sent to the army by his father for insubordination.

Congo’s army has appeared too weak and dysfunctional to stop a militia that has swept through the eastern part of the country ...

Harvard professor Steven Levitsky co-authored How Democracies Die, a hit book that explored the way strongmen leaders, ...

When Rwanda's ex-spy chief Patrick Karegeya was murdered in South Africa in 2014, his former brother-in-arms James Kabarebe ...

The United States has sanctioned a Rwandan government minister for his alleged role in the conflict in neighboring Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels are battling the Congolese army and have captured ...

These efforts have brought immense financial as well as health benefits to the U.S. and the rest of the world. Some ...

Perhaps more importantly, it contains some of the world’s largest deposits of key minerals, such as cobalt, which is ...

For six decades, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was a cornerstone of Washington's foreign policy, delivering 40% of global aid while projecting a softer image of ...

Rwandan troops, under the leadership of President Paul Kagame, and Congo-based Tutsi militias with Rwandan backing launched an invasion of Zaire, which was ruled at the time by Dictator Mobutu ...

AI-generated image. With the recent confirmations of Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – two of the most controversial ...