

US Encourages Businesses to Explore Africa's Opportunities
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker. LAGOS—U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and a slew of American business executives are...


Burundi Opposition Leader Still Hopeful for Peaceful Settlement
Former South African President Nelson Mandela, center, poses with President Domitien Ndayizeye, left, and Jean Minani, speaker of Burundi...


Opposition Sees Ominous Ethnic Undercurrent in Burundi Violence
An opposition demonstrator holds a sign in French reading "No to a third term" next to a barricade fire set by protesters in the Ngagara...


Burundi’s Government Not Motivated to Act, Rights Groups Say
A man takes a picture of spent bullet casings lying on a street in the Nyakabiga neighborhood of Bujumbura, Burundi, Dec. 12, 2015....


Liberia President Supports Reducing Presidential Term
Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said she supports the call by Liberians to reduce the...


Burundi Sides Split on Peacekeepers at Start of Talks
Uganda VP Edward Sekandi, second left, front row, Uganda PM Ruhakana Rugunda, right, and East African Community Secretary-General Dr....


Rwanda's Kagame Leaves Next Term Up in Air
Rwandan President Paul Kagame. Rwandan President Paul Kagame thanked the nation Monday for voting to change term limits in the...


Rwandans Vote on Measure Allowing Kagame More Terms
Election materials are being verified by polling assistants at a polling station on the eve of a referendum as Rwandans will vote to...


Rwandan Opposition Leader Urges a ‘No’ Vote in Referendum
Frank Habineza, the leader of Rwanda's only opposition political party the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda, speaks to a reporter at his...


UN: Rwanda Genocide Suspect Arrested
Family photographs of some of those who died hang in a display in the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Kigali, Rwanda, April 2014....















