The past three years have been turbulent for the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a region that has experienced ...

The U.N. children’s fund on Thursday accused armed men, likely on both sides of the conflict in eastern Congo, of raping scores of children over the past weeks as rebels expand their footprint and ...

The world around us was khaki and brown—a sprawling sea of sand, with tracks carved in the dirt for makeshift roadways.

The rebels seized Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, following fighting that left ... Associated Press writer Wilson ...

Dakar, Senegal – On a weekday at Dakar’s open-air Fass Market ... Indeed, streets in the capital city and across Senegal were ...

Watch a trailer for Dakar 2000 at Manhattan Theatre Club in the video here. The new work by Rajiv Joseph is directed by May ...

For those living in Goma, which has been captured by Rwanda-backed rebels, there is little water, little food and much ...

Prayers and melodic chants reverberated across Dakar’s Yoff neighborhood as thousands ... The Layene brotherhood, while smaller than Senegal’s other Sufi orders such as the Mouride or Tijan ...

followers from the Layene brotherhood commemorate the first public appearance of their founder Seydina Limamou Laye in 1884 at Yoff's beachside mosque in Dakar, Senegal, Friday, Jan. 31 ...

As part of the celebrations, worshippers made a pilgrimage to the sacred grotto where Seydina Limamou Laye first retreated for meditation and — according to believers — received divine inspiration.

It could see Senegal play at Nottingham Forest’s City Ground- although nothing has been finalised. German boss Tuchel was at the World Cup draw in Zurich before Christmas but he officially took ...