The continent's peacekeepers are key players in its conflict zones. However, southern African troops are withdrawing from one of the deadliest — in DR Congo — over fatalities, public opposition and ...

Global power dynamics in Africa are shifting, with China eclipsing the influence of the US and France. China has become ...

Maps portraying Africa as overrun by China suggest that governments and ... Sanctions and aid cuts over the Tigray conflict fuelled a pivot toward China and Russia. The security risks Securitisation ...

An attack on a U.N. helicopter has highlighted rising tensions in the world’s youngest country, where a seven-year-old peace ...

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Many South Sudanese worry that Juba could soon be consumed by violence again. In 2020 the two main adversaries in the civil ...

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

Yet the conflict is having another significant and ... Virunga National Park, Africa’s oldest national park, lies largely within M23’s operational zone since late 2021. M23 now controls ...

A conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is set to erupt into a wider ...

the United States has seen its influence in this part of Africa wane. These powerful and violent forces are converging in a new crossroads of conflict, with potential consequences well beyond this ...

Experts say the situation is worsening in Ethiopia's most populous region, Oromia, where a conflict has been raging between the government and a rebel grou ...