These countries are significant because of their impending membership in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).

By Clare Nuttall in Glasgow Torrential rains in the Congolese capital Kinshasa in early April brought devastating floods that ...

Setting up the world’s biggest giant tropical forest reserve in the Congo Basin is a step towards conserving the area and ...

Human rights group Amnesty International accused the M23 rebels in eastern Congo of killing, torturing and forcibly ...

Since 1947, India and Pakistan have been locked in conflict over Kashmir, a majority-Muslim region in the northernmost part of India. The mountainous, 86,000-square-mile territory was once a ...

Some pseudonyms are used to protect the identities of interviewees. “I saw a lot of suffering.” The old man, Lokwi, gestures ...

THE Alliance Fleuve Congo/M23 rebel movement controlling territory in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) says a political solution is the best option to resolve the country’s multi-faceted ...

Congolese Red Cross members bury in a mass grave the body bags containing the remains of victims killed in the recent clashes between M23 rebels and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of ...

A battle over plastic—a material so prolific the UN calls the 90 percent of it that ends up as trash a pollution crisis—is under way in Florida. Coral Gables, a small city of 51,000 people ...

M23 rebels in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo, after the city was seized in February - Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/Getty Images ...

Congo is grappling with soaring military costs and declining tax revenues due to an offensive by Rwandan-backed rebels, who ...