A 50-year-old West Africa regional bloc is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries — Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso — formally left the group, known as ECOWAS.

Kagame and Tshisekedi are due to attend a joint summit in the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam, bringing together the eight ...

If the collapse of EAC, and now ECOWAS, teaches us anything, it is that the greatest risk ...

The Rwandan-backed armed group M23 announced a unilateral humanitarian "ceasefire" from Tuesday in the DR Congo's (DRC) ...

The two blocs will meet for the first time to discuss the crisis in eastern Democratic ...

Amid fears of a regional conflagration, the 16 member countries of the Southern African regional organisation had called on Friday for “a joint summit” with the eight countries of the East African ...

Rwandan-backed armed group M23 announced a humanitarian “ceasefire” from Tuesday in DR Congo’s perennially explosive east, ...

The Kenyan presidency announced on Monday that Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwandan President Paul Kagame would ...

This development blocked earlier progress, when participants agreed that the Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo ...

Rwandan President Paul Kagame and his Congolese counterpart Felix Tshisekedi joined the summit in Tanzania on Saturday.

KAMPALA, Uganda — Leaders from eastern and southern Africa on Saturday called for an immediate ceasefire in eastern Congo, ...

Rwanda has welcomed the joint East African Community (EAC) and Southern African Development Community (SADC) Summit slated for Saturday, stressing that the intervention is "long overdue." ...