Dozens of people remain missing four days after an overloaded passenger boat sank during a storm over Lake Tanganyika in central Africa and rescuers do not expect to find any more survivors, the United Nations mission to the Democratic Republic

A high-level commander of an armed Rwandan group has laid down his arms and voluntarily returned to his own country, the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) reported today.

The Court of Appeal of Toulouse deferred Thursday to 9 September the examination of extradition request of Rwanda for a former Rwandan soldier, Marcel Bivugabagabo, wanted for his alleged role in the 1994 genocide, reports Hirondelle Agency.

A surge since the start of the year in the number of attacks by armed bandits across the north of the Central African Republic (CAR) is forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes and has brought economic

By Sokari Ekine No one is illegal - Abahlali baseMjondolo comment on the Xenophobic Attacks in Johannesburg. We condemn the attacks, the beatings, rape and murder, in Johannesburg on people born in other countries. We will fight left and right

A Rwandan rebel implicated in the 1994 genocide, Colonel Faustin Sebuhura, has been repatriated back home Wednesday by the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC).