Provisional results announced by authorities in the Republic of Congo show that President Denis Sassou N’Guesso has been reelected for a fifth consecutive term. Sassou N’Guesso won 94,82% of the ...

Sarah Emma Edmonds, a Canadian immigrant in Michigan, disguised herself as “Frank Thompson” to serve in the Union Army’s 2nd ...

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How would Sassou Nguesso’s long stay in office affect this election? Sassou Nguesso first came into power in 1979, following a military coup. His rule was interrupted in 1992 after he lost the country ...

Earlier this week the Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic (CAR) announced that Maturin Kombo, who was in the court’s custody charged with crimes committed in 2014, died in hospital ...

Men and women who took part in an interfaith programme experienced a remarkably lower incidence of violence, even years later ...

Challenges persist over politics, permits, sources say US pressured to act on M23 for deals to progress, US diplomat says Chinese firms face lighter compliance burden, analysts say DAKAR/KINSHASA, ...

It is a war for control over some of the world’s richest mineral reserves and the violence is heightened by long-standing ethnic and political... The war raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo It ...

Examining the Civil War gives us true insight into the United States’ past and present. Created by Leslie Greif, Darrell Fetty and John Sayles — and executive produced by Kevin Costner and Morgan ...

Four years of war appear to have played a big part in deterring or preventing women in Ukraine from having children. In Russia, women seem to be resistant to repeated calls from the Kremlin and ...

In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, government forces supported by militia groups are engaged in fierce fighting with M23 rebels backed by neighboring Rwanda. It is a battle for territory, for ...

"I was the first woman president of an African nation, and I do believe more countries ought to try that," says H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Nobel laureate and former president of Liberia. Telling the ...