Within this shifting landscape, Burundi—often seen as peripheral—demands particular attention. Despite being similar in size to Lesotho at around 27,900 ...

Burundi’s natural habitat was badly damaged during its civil war—and it's now under threat from population pressure and poaching.

As the country marks two years of war this week, the question that looms large is whether hope for a democratic future still ...

Sudan's civil war marks full two years and the fighting, atrocities and famine are only mounting. The Sudanese military succeeded last month in wresting the capital, Khartoum, from its rival, the ...

Sudan's civil war marks the end of its second year on Tuesday, and the fighting, atrocities and famine are only mounting.

The world's youngest republic, and one of its poorest, is on the brink of returning to a civil war as its unelected state leaders prepare for another armed showdown. With 57% of the population facing ...

Adding to the hardship, Burundi has endured decades of political unrest and ethnic conflicts, which have hindered infrastructure development and deterred foreign investment. A prolonged civil war ...

Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the same way he started it more than 25 hours earlier: by invoking the words of his mentor, the late congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis.

A landlocked country in East Africa, Burundi is a low-income economy, with 80% of the population employed in the agricultural sector. Located in the Great Lakes region, Burundi is surrounded by Rwanda ...

Relief efforts from Friday’s devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake will be especially complicated with the country in embroiled in civil war, which began after the army seized power from the ...

An enormous cache of recently discovered Civil War letters and other 19th century documents has been donated to Virginia Tech by a descendant of a Confederate general who later played a key role ...

I knew from the first few seconds that “Warfare” was going to be a different kind of war movie. Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland’s film about a real battle in the Iraq War opens with a sexy ...