For over thirty years, the FDLR has remained an armed presence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The DRC says it should be neutralised. Western governments say it should be neutralised. The ...

IFAD’s US$12 million package includes a US$9 million loan, a US$1.8 million risk-sharing grant and a US$1.2 million technical assistance grant.

For centuries, the study of ancient history relied primarily on interpreting classical texts and examining inscriptions and ...

Where we stand doesn't determine whether we are right, but it affects what we see, and what we don't see. That manifests ...

Africa’s agricultural productivity has grown in recent decades, but more progress needs to be made to improve the livelihoods ...

The Civil War forced Washington to borrow at an unprecedented scale. Federal debt rose from about $65 million in 1860 to roughly $2.7 billion in 1865, approximately doubling annually over that span.

Rwanda is routinely celebrated as a growth miracle on the African continent. The country's GDP growth averaged 7.4% annually between 2000 and 2023, one of the fastest in Africa. However, the most ...

U.S. economic growth slowed unexpectedly in the second quarter of the year, according to the Commerce Department's advance estimate. The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) on Thursday released its ...

Americans remain in a sour mood about the economy – roughly a quarter (24%) rate economic conditions in the country today as excellent or good, while 41% say they are “only fair” and 35% describe them ...

False accusations of genocide are nothing new. In 1993 Hutu intellectuals at the National University of Rwanda accused the Tutsi-associated Rwandan Patriotic Front of genocide. They circulated ...

And Rwanda borders Lake Kivu, a lake that is one of three known lakes to go through limnic eruptions. A limnic eruption is a rare type of natural disaster in which deep lake waters burst into a gas ...