Fighting is worsening in the north-eastern Ituri Province but plans for a 2,000-strong rapid reaction force are embroiled in United Nations and European Union bureaucracy. The prop...

Only a burst tyre and a forced landing made Uganda miss its 24 April deadline to pull its troops out of north-eastern Congo-Kinshasa. They set off in four Antonov transport aeropla...

Mystery surrounds the fate of a proposed US$50 million investment in the Shikolobwe concession in Katanga, one of the world's richest deposits of copper, cobalt and uranium. The Un...

South Africa is about to raise the stakes by committing three battalions for peacekeeping duties in Burundi and eastern Congo, having hosted a succession of summits to persuade war...

General François Bozizé, Bangui's new strongman, has quickly consolidated after seizing power on 15 March. Government troops made no resistance as Bozizé's men...

Following his overwhelming but controversial 97.1 percent election victory, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, (aka 'El Jefe' The Boss), has tired of efforts to bring opposit...

The grand plan to reform Equatorial Guinea has hit the rocks. Companies operating in the world's fastest growing oil economy have stood back as President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbas...

The worsening fighting in the Ituri region of eastern Congo-Kinshasa is undermining the peace accords signed by Rwanda and Uganda with the Kinshasa government, according to diploma...

After three decades at the head of one of Africa's worst managed and most corrupt oil economies, President Omar Bongo might well expect some political trouble. Quite the opposite. ...

Peace deals for both Congo-Kinshasa and Burundi, brokered by South Africa, will be tested early in 2003. The Congo deal, signed in Pretoria on 17 December, proposes a government of...