When a government official seems to spend more time in foreign press briefings in high end hotels and first-class flights than on the ground tackling domestic emergencies, it raises a fundamental ...

A terrorizing presence since the 1980s, Gustave has lurked in the shadows for well over a decade. Now, a herpetologist dives ...

The seizure of major cities in eastern Congo by the M23 rebel group in recent weeks and statements by key parties show that ...

Top United Nations officials in Africa have warned an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council that the offensive of ...

To cross from Congo to its sister city in Rwanda here takes just minutes by land. The countries share a painful history but have little in common these days.

We often talk about water and how important it is to make sure it is clean and unpolluted. But lakes usually fall through the ...