TANZANIA'S Vice President, Emmanuel Nchimbi, has said that for any country to achieve a lasting sustainable development, peace and inclusiveness must be at the center.Dr Nchimbi made the statement ...

April, 1994. Genocide in Rwanda. 800,000 dead. A catastrophe that upset the balance in the entire region. The Great Lakes region of Africa ended the year with a bloodbath. This documentary shows the ...

Africa is entering one of its most volatile periods in decades, as overlapping security crises escalate across the Sahel, the ...

Are you a refugee, asylum-seeker or stateless person looking for help? Visit the HELP site to find support and services from UNHCR. Around 27 million internally displaced persons, refugees and ...

For three days last week the world came together at the United Nations in New York City to discuss ways to place water at the center of decision-making. The UN Water Conference, the first such event ...

Ross Exler paddling on his kayak. He used a kayak to make his way across the lakes and travelled between lakes by bicycle making him the first person to complete a solo, man-powered crossing of the ...

The EU has a new strategy for the Great Lakes region, which places a premium on security rather than democracy. For every time the word democracy is mentioned in the strategy, security is mentioned ...

Doha seeks to deepen its economic and diplomatic footprint in the Great Lakes ...

More than 270 people are dead and at least 300 still missing after flooding in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ...