Angola, Burundi, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The number of children and women who are survivors of sexual violence in Congo surged over four fold over the first half this year, Save The Children said on Thursday, amid a ...

Only two women have been directly elected by their populations to the presidency in African countries: President Ellen Sirleaf Johnson of Liberia in 2006 and President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah of ...

NEAR A HILLTOP village of thatched huts and purple cassava fields, young men with Kalashnikovs stand guard by a dirt road. Though the mood is relaxed, the checkpoint in Ituri province in the east of ...

At least 30 women said workers from the World Health Organization were involved Women also noted men came from UNICEF, Oxfam, Medecins Sans Frontieres, International Organisation for Migration, World ...

The Pentagon’s Africa Command (AFRICOM) is this week launching an existential campaign for its survival amid concerns that the 18-year-old combatant command will not survive into adulthood. Head of ...

"As early as in the nineteenth century, European travellers had already remarked upon the tremendous complexity and variety of Yaka hair styles and headdresses. They were different styles for men and ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. During his trip to Congo (now ...