As global trade tensions intensify, the increasing demand for elements from the lesser known corners of the periodic table is ...

In January 2025, the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) escalated with fighting between Government ...

Families returning to their communities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after months or years of displacement are confronting destroyed homes, lost livelihoods, and dire humanitarian ...

The most infamous example is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, where the US raised tariffs on over 20,000 imports — a move ...

President Trump’s Africa envoy Massad Boulos has finished a tour of several East African nations, including the Democratic ...

As clouds gather and humidity rises across west Africa, whose annual rains bring an uptick of deadly, malaria-carrying ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has some of the largest deposits on Earth. Its President wants to sell them—and win a ...

Congo’s government and Rwanda-backed rebels are meeting in the Gulf Arab state of Qatar for much-anticipated talks in a renewed push for peace in the conflict-battered eastern Congo, where the rebels ...

While the Democratic Republic of Congo reels from a new rebel offensive in the east, its capital in the west, Kinshasa, ...

The number of children going hungry in war-torn eastern regions of the Democratic ... people who have been internally displaced by conflict in DRC, according to the latest data from UNHCR, with ...

I have been a long time scholar of and commentator on African regime types, political governance and conflict, with a focus on Rwanda. It’s my view that Rwanda’s escapades in eastern DRC have ...

But it is located at the heart of conflicts that have been tearing the eastern DRC apart for the past 30 years. Just last week, Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi commuted the death sentences of ...