Heavy clashes erupted this week between Congo's army and a militia founded by a war criminal convicted at the International Criminal Court but later released, both sides said, and one civil society ...

Rubaya produces around 15 percent of the world’s coltan, all dug manually by impoverished locals who earn a few dollars per day.

It has been a year since Rwanda introduced a remedial learning programme, which gives primary school pupils who scored below 50 per cent in their end-of-year exams a second chance to get promoted.