CIVICUS speaks with Claude Iguma, a mining governance expert with a PhD in Social Sciences, who is based in Bukavu, South Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

A consortium of three local banks and one foreign bank announced last week that they had agreed to issue guarantees worth $322.8 million (approximately Rwf464.6 billion) for Rwanda's new international ...

Jane Banda, a Malawian national, was at the clinic. She has been struggling to get her seven-week-old baby vaccinated, but has been blocked every time by Operation Dudula. She fears her baby's health ...

President Museveni has officially launched the long-awaited reconstruction and rehabilitation of Salaama Road, a key route in Kampala's Makindye Division that has for years been in a deplorable state.

The President and Chief Executive of Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote, has asked wealthy Nigerians to invest in the country, saying it remained the only way to build the nation. According to ...

He said: "The most important thing is that our job is half done with the current hunger in the land. The major task we have is to convince Nigerians that we are the alternative. "What is clear is that ...

Equatorial Guinea sharply criticised France at the United Nations’ top court on Tuesday, labelling its actions as “neo-colonial” in a long-running dispute over a lavish, multi-million-euro mansion in ...

SA has accepted an offer of just over R520-million from the Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria to buy the twice-a-year ...

Kenya is set to roll out the long-acting injectable HIV Pre-Exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) Lenacapavir by January 2026 following its approval by the World Health Organization.

ANC accuses MEC Thulasizwe Buthelezi of working outside the Government of Provincial Unity by targeting ANC-led municipalities in the province. Buthelezi was forced to speak to the media outside the ...

Rwanda's former Minister of Trade and Industry, Jean-Chrysostome Ngabitsinze, has assumed office as the new Group Director General of Africa Risk Capacity (ARC), a specialised agency of the African ...