Kenya and Uganda have kicked off their railway projects, with Kenya planning to continue the standard gauge railway from Naivasha in central Rift to Malaba on the border with Uganda and Kampala ...

The East African Community has been ambitious in creating a regional common market. This includes making it easy for people ...

The Chief of Defence Forces, Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, and Rwanda President Paul Kagame have expressed displeasure over the ...

Dive into unfolding events spanning governance shifts, military deployments, cross-border cooperation, financial reforms, environmental shifts, population movements and civic engagement. Monitor Afric ...

HE the Minister of State for Interior Affairs Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Faisal bin Mohammed al-Thani met separately with Minister ...

Dutch investigative journalist Olivier van Beemen published In the Name of Nature: An Investigation into the Neocolonial ...

The United States regularly keeps citizens abreast of any concerns regarding travel to foreign countries. This week, the Department of State issued a number of travel warnings for Americans. On ...

On July 15, 1994, an unprecedented 250,000 Rwandan refugees crossed from Gisenyi (now Rubavu) into Goma, in what was then Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo--DRC).

Conflict analysts have suggested that Islamic state militants in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been able to operate with increasing impunity due to the conflict with the allegedly ...

Some 200 Uruguayan peacekeeping troops intended for the United Nations (UN) mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) ...

CIVICUS speaks with Claude Iguma, a mining governance expert with a PhD in Social Sciences, who is based in Bukavu, South Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).On 27 June, the ...