Italy race problems seen with black Cabinet minister
ROME (AP) - It was hailed as a giant step forward for racial integration in a country that has long been ill at ease with its growing immigrant classes...
African forces suspend hunt for warlord Kony
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - African troops in Central African Republic have suspended the hunt for the fugitive warlord Joseph Kony because the new government there is not cooperating with the mission, Uganda's top military official said Wednesday...
UN authorizes intervention force for Congo
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council authorized a new 'intervention brigade' for Congo on Thursday with an unprecedented mandate to take military action against rebel groups to help bring peace to the country's conflict-wracked east...
Angelina Jolie meets with women, girls in eastern Congo
GOMA, Congo (AP) - Angelina Jolie is meeting with women and girls in eastern Congo, where sexual violence is rampant...
Central African Republic president overthrown by rebels
BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Rebels overthrew Central African Republic's president of a decade on Sunday, seizing the presidential palace and declaring that the desperately poor country has "opened a new page in its history."
Congolese teen journeys from streets to Oscars
theGRIO REPORT - The 2013 Academy Awards marked a milestone for 16-year-old actress Rachel Mwanza, a teenager pulled from the streets of the Congo to star in what would become the Oscar-nominated foreign film...
Ben Affleck calls for stronger US leadership in Congo
WASHINGTON (AP) - Actor-director Ben Affleck says a desperate humanitarian situation in Congo requires a stronger display of U.S. leadership...
UN court acquits Congo rebel leader of war crimes
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - The International Criminal Court acquitted a Congolese militia leader Tuesday of all charges of commanding fighters who destroyed a village in eastern Congo in 2003, raping and hacking to death some 200 people, including children...
Congo: Images of a country at war
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Congolese officials are in talks Sunday with representatives of M23, the rebel group that last week took control of the eastern Congo city of Goma, according to Ugandan officials...
Hunt for Kony lacks funding, troops and equipment
The head of a planned African Union force to hunt warlord Joseph Kony said on Wednesday that he can't start his task because he doesn't have troops, equipment or the necessary funding.
