Congolese government officials have met with rebel representatives of the March 23 Movement (also known as M23) from the Democratic Republic of Congo on...

By Sophia Tesfamariam:   "I served 17 years ago as Ambassador to Ethiopia. One of the things I learned in the region is that lying is a justified...

By Sophia Tesfamariam, Professor Ali A. Mazrui, Director of the Institute of Global Cultural  Studies and Albert Schweitzer Professor...

While Americans focus on Kim, Kony, Clooney and the slave-produced iPad 3, the totalitarian takeover that assures their own subjugation...

Eritrea has shown tremendous progress in producing a number of competent medical doctors and specialists from its two medical schools based on its...

At the Vatican hosted conference attended by diplomats from over 180 nations, Pope Benedict XVI gave a small speech addressing the “threat”...

Nigeria’s senate body has passed a piece of legislation that affirms the ban on same-sex marriages and introduces other harsh anti-homosexuality...

It was typical of the Lord’s Resistance Army. Devastatingly cruel, simple, and unfortunately effective. According to Human Rights Watch, the Ugandan rebel group raided villages in northeastern Congo (Bas Uele) and the Central African Republic. The LRA abducted nearly 700 people over the past 18 months. Of the 700 people, it is estimated that 1/3 of the abductees...

321 dead, 250 kidnapped. Shot, sliced, and left to rot, the hundreds of bodies gives off a sickening stench in a remote village. In what is called one of the worst acts in the history of the Lord’s Resistance Army, this massacre was just discovered recently by outside media due to the Democratic Republic of Congo’s government downplaying the LRA because...

Though most of our species in the more developed countries won’t even care about this, I feel compelled to report this tragedy of environmental disaster wrought by our lesser fortunate brethren in Africa specifically between the countries of Congo, Uganda, and Rwanda, all sites of genocides and the abuse of human rights in modern history. There are multiple factors negatively...