MASISI, DRC — Forced to flee her home, 62-year-old Agathe fears never to see peace again as she recounts the violence she has faced in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. But the abuse Agathe has suffered in the territory of Masisi in North-Kivu prov…

GABORONE, BOTSWANA — The Botswana Wildlife Producers Association, a group that focuses on the conservation and management of the country’s wildlife, says placing electronic tracking collars on big tusk elephants could help prevent indiscriminate hunts….

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights warns that Mali’s new media restrictions reflect a growing intolerance toward freedom of the press in the region.U.N. human rights officials are expressing deep dismay at Mali’s decisi…

The U.N.’s refugee chief, Filippo Grandi, on a visit to Cameroon this week, vowed to give more support to displaced Central Africans and Cameroonians fleeing intercommunal violence. Grandi spoke at a ministerial conference in Yaoundé on helping refugee…

More than 35,000 refugees who have fled to Uganda this year seeking safety from violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance.The U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, and 44 humanitarian partners a…

BANJUI— The Central African Republic (CAR) became the first African country to adopt cryptocurrency Bitcoin as legal tender.Globally, the country is the second country to do so after El Salvador.President Faustin Archange Touadera signed a bill into la…