African leaders increasingly neglect homegrown initiatives, instead bowing to foreign ...

Virtually all banks are closed. Currency shortages abound. Staples prices have jumped. Now residents are finding themselves ...

Imagine a man in a tailored suit, sweating profusely as he chases a bus that's long since pulled out of the station. He waves frantically, shouting at the passengers inside—particularly one sitting ...

Democratic Republic of Congo said on Friday it had become the latest African country to grant a licence to tech billionaire ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — If the next pope is from sub-Saharan Africa, he would be the first in Catholic Church history.

The mission to bring peace to eastern Congo, however, is far from accomplished. The recent past is littered with broken ...

International Organization for Migration (IOM) Deputy Director General for Management and Reform SungAh Lee called for urgent ...

The April 2025 flooding disaster in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, wasn’t just about intense rainfall. It was a symptom of recent land use change which has occurred rapidly ...

After uncovering the rising trend of drug and substance abuse in Uganda’s universities and institutions, this final part of our series traces the root of the problem—how illegal drugs make their way ...

The move has caused outcry in Uganda, with human rights activists calling the decision "insane" on social media. NGOs and opposition politicians have long accused the government of President ...

The government denies the accusations. In January of 2024 Uganda's Supreme Court delivered a ruling that bans the military from trying civilians. That decision forced the government to transfer ...