Fighters from the M23 rebel group have seized swathes of territory and captured two cities in the Democratic Republic of Congo this year - Arlette Bashizi/Reuters Rwanda has cut diplomatic ties with ...

After Africans fought for independence, a resistance that cost more than an arm and a leg, it hasn’t been easy for our countries to disentangle from colonial powers. Instead, they engineered a heavy ...

Belgium still behaves as though it is Europe's natural interpreter of Central Africa, a role inherited from its colonial past and rarely questioned in European circles. For decades, Belgian officials ...