More than 100 inmates have died so far this year in Democratic Republic of Congo's underfunded and chronically overcrowded prisons, a U.N. human rights official said on Wednesday. The main…

"I understood that not talking about the pain I was feeling would protect them. So we all learned to pretend." Family secrets are nothing new. It’s safe to say that…

How Gulf princes, the safari industry, and conservation groups are displacing the Maasai from the last of their Serengeti homeland By Stephanie McCrummen Photographs by Nichole Sobecki This article was featured…

President Paul Kagame leads rites in Kigali as the African nation marks one of the bloodiest massacres of 20th century. Rwandans are marking 30 years since a genocide orchestrated by…

A 91-year-old retired Guatemalan general went on trial Friday for genocide in the second such case linked to the massacre of Indigenous people during the country's 1960-1996 civil war. Benedicto…

KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwandan President Paul Kagame blamed the inaction of the international community for allowing the 1994 genocide to happen as Rwandans on Sunday commemorated 30 years since an estimated…

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Matthew Walley’s eyes sweep over the large forest that has sustained his Indigenous community in Liberia for generations. Even as the morning sun casts a golden…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The head of the U.N.’s atomic watchdog agency on Sunday condemned a drone strike on one of six nuclear reactors at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power…

BUGESERA, Rwanda (AP) — Anastasie Nyirabashyitsi and Jeanette Mukabyagaju think of each other as dear friends. The women’s friendship was cemented one day in 2007, when Mukabyagaju, going somewhere, left…

Of all the obstacles people of color face in their struggle for equity in America, one of the most durable is often called “the legacy” of redlining. Redlining was the widespread,…