RWANDA EXPECTS CENSUS TO SHOW SURGE IN RANKS OF HIGHLY ENDANGERED MOUNTAIN GORILLAS

Mountain gorillas are under threat from poaching, war and habitat loss... READ MORE›

MILITANTS KILL EGYPTIAN U.N. PEACEKEEPER IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

Peacekeeper and wounded three others in an attack in southern Central African Republic on Sunday, the United Nations said in a statement... READ MORE›

KIRUNDI ONE OF SEVEN NEW LANGUAGES ON SBS RADIO

Kirundi is the primary language spoken in the East African country of Burundi... READ MORE›

AID WORKERS FORCED TO LIMIT RATIONS IN WAR-TORN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

Aid workers have had to cut rations in half across the Central African Republic because of underfunding, the United Nations has warned... READ MORE›

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SOUTH SUDAN PLANE CRASH KILLS DOZENS; BABY AMONG SURVIVORS

Ateny Wek Ateny, a press secretary in the South Sudan President's office, said 18 people were aboard the flight 12 South Sudanese passengers and six crew members... READ MORE›

CAR TOPS LIST OF 'WORLD'S MOST NEGLECTED' CRISES

The conflict in the Central African Republic CAR is the world's most neglected displacement crisis, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council... READ MORE›

FOUR KILLED TRYING TO STOP ELEPHANT POACHERS IN CONGO

The national park is situated in an unstable region bordering South Sudan and near Uganda, where Uganda's brutal Lord's Resistance Army rebels operate... READ MORE›

UK DISMISSES RWANDA SPY CHIEF CASE

Rwanda's Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo said she was delighted that Gen Karake was returning to Rwanda... READ MORE›

I'M NOT OFFERING MY HOME TO A SYRIAN REFUGEE. THAT DOESN'T MAKE ME EVIL

Of course the people who have offered to take in Syrian refugees are not bad people... READ MORE›

ORDERED TO CATCH A WARLORD UGANDAN TROOPS ARE ACCUSED OF HUNTING GIRLS

Joseph Kony is dead, announced American-made leaflets dropped from a helicopter in the Central African Republic in recent weeks... READ MORE›

ORPHANAGE FOUNDER FROM AFRICA WINS PRIZE IN MEMORY OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Ms. Barankitse was born in Burundi, a central African nation where a tumultuous ethnic conflict pit her people, the Tutsis, against the Hutus... READ MORE›

DOZENS KILLED IN CARGO PLANE CRASH IN SOUTH SUDAN ALONG NILE

The flight had been headed to strategic oil fields in the Upper Nile region of the country, where there is a large South Sudanese military presence... READ MORE›

RWANDA ILLEGALLY DETAINING, TORTURING CIVILIANS: HRW

Human Rights Watch HRW has released a report detailing unlawful detention and torture in Rwanda... READ MORE›

MORE THAN 60 MILLION PEOPLE DISPLACED BY WAR IN 2015

The United Nations asks the world to turn its attention Saturday to people displaced by war conflict and other crises... READ MORE›

POACHERS KILL OVER 200 ELEPHANTS IN A YEAR IN CONGO NATIONAL PARK

It also said its mandate does not include military support for Garamba's rangers... READ MORE›

POLICEMAN IN GORILLA SUIT STILL CRAWLING ON HANDS AND KNEES

A Metropolitan Police officer has been crawling the London Marathon in a gorilla costume since the race began on Sunday morning... READ MORE›

US MILITARY ENDING ROLE IN HUNT FOR ELUSIVE AFRICAN WARLORD JOSEPH KONY

The US service member was escorting a peacekeeper from the CAR-based African Union force when they came upon two LRA fighters... READ MORE›

THREE AFRICANS LISTED AMONG FORTUNE MAGAZINE'S TOP 50 WORLD LEADERS

Chairman, Econet Wireless Group Strive Masiyiwa led the trio from Africa by ranking 33 for his energetic and well-rounded philanthropy making an impact in Africa, the magazine noted... READ MORE›

SOUTH SUDAN LEADERS ORDER CEASEFIRE AS CIVIL WAR FEARS GROW

President Salva Kiir is determined to carry on his partnership with Riek Machar... READ MORE›

PARIS ACCORD CONSIDERS CLIMATE CHANGE AS A FACTOR IN MASS MIGRATION

Climate-related displacement is not a future phenomenon, said Marine Franck, who works on climate change and migration for the United Nations high commissioner for refugees... READ MORE›

DEATH OF NORTHERN WHITE RHINO LEAVES JUST THREE WORLDWIDE

An aging and much loved northern white rhino died on Sunday at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in California... READ MORE›

ON CLIMATE CHANGE NOT A SCIENTIST NOT ENOUGH FOR SOME U.S. REPUBLICANS

The United Nations has estimated that from 1987 to 2012, the Lord's Resistance Army killed more than 100,000 people, abducted 60,000 to 100,000 children and displaced more than 2.5 million civilians... READ MORE›

POPE FRANCIS ENDS AFRICAN TRIP WITH VISIT TO A MOSQUE

More than two years of sectarian strife has displaced more than 400,000 people in the Central African Republic, the United Nations estimates... READ MORE›

AS SUPPLIES DWINDLE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM CUTTING RATIONS TO REFUGEES IN KENYA

The World Food Program is the largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger, assisting 80 million people in 75 countries... READ MORE›

The United Nations has estimated that from 1987 to 2012, the Lord's Resistance Army killed more than 100,000 people, abducted 60,000 to 100,000 children and displaced more than 2.5 million civilians... READ MORE›

THE WORLD'S LARGEST REFUGEE SETTLEMENT YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF

The largest of the settlements hosting refugees from South Sudan is Bidi Bidi... READ MORE›

LAST DAYS FOR UN COURT TRYING SUSPECTS IN RWANDA GENOCIDE

But now, after 21 years, 93 cases and 2 billion, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda is closing down... READ MORE›

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC HUNDREDS ESCAPE PRISON AMID DAYS OF UNREST

The unrest erupted as the transitional president Catherine Samba-Panza was attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York... READ MORE›

RWANDAN SPY CHIEF'S ARREST EXPOSES THE INTRICACIES OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE

What links the president of Sudan, an Egyptian journalist and a Rwandan spy chief?... READ MORE›

NEW ACCUSATIONS ABOUT SEXUAL ABUSE IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC PROMPT INQUIRY

The United Nations said Wednesday that it was investigating new allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse by its peacekeepers in the Central African Republic... READ MORE›

FINLAND IS THE MOST SOCIALLY PROGRESSIVE COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, NEW STUDY REVEALS

Finland is the most socially progressive country in the world while the war torn Central African Republic is the least progressive, a new study has found... READ MORE›

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC AID GROUPS SEEK BETTER ACCESS TO STRIFE-TORN CAPITAL

Meanwhile the United Nations reported that two of its peacekeepers had been severely wounded as they worked to take down roadblocks that militants had erected... READ MORE›

IN HISTORIC RULING, INTERNATIONAL COURT CITES RAPE IN WAR CRIMES CONVICTION OF EX-CONGO OFFICIAL

In the Central African Republic, Bemba dispatched his forces in a five-month conflict marked by rights abuses... READ MORE›

CHINA CONDEMNS MUSEVENI'S CALL FOR IVORY TRAFFICKING PROBE OF ITS DIPLOMATS

The Chinese Ambassador to Uganda Zheng Zhuqiang has condemned an order by President Yoweri Museveni for an investigation into ivory trafficking by two suspected Chinese diplomats... READ MORE›