A French court has sentenced a former rebel leader and politician from the Democratic Republic of Congo to 30 years in jail ...

The coup that followed soon afterwards in Gabon, in August 2023, was similarly the product of local frustrations. In this ...

The US accuses Rwanda of backing the rebels. Rwanda denies the allegation, but its President, Paul Kagame, signed a peace ...

Bram Verelst, a Burundi-based researcher with the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) think-tank, said the assault appeared ...

DR Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwanda's Paul Kagame have signed an accord aimed at ending a decades-long conflict ...

Bashar al-Assad was ousted as Syria's president and fled to Russia in December 2024, bringing a sudden end to his 24-year ...

One year into his rule Syria's leader has won over Trump and much of the West, but at home people know his weaknesses.

A senior government official in Benin has told the BBC that the leader of Sunday's failed coup is taking refuge in ...

The escalation in fighting comes despite the peace deal brokered by US President Donald Trump last week between DR Congo's ...

This is the first time that officials have said how many foreign soldiers were deployed to help thwart the mutiny.

Hollywood figures including Rebel Wilson, Ashton Kutcher and Sacha Baron Cohen have spoken out after today’s antisemitic ...