Congo

Armed checkpoints along key trade routes—not natural resources—are the key to financing rebel groups and insurgencies around the world.

A new book explores the historical roots and contemporary fallout of Paul Kagame’s aggressive foreign policy.

If the Biden administration wants to advance democracy around the world, it needs to fix U.S. diplomacy first.

By removing Saudi Arabia and other serial violators of children’s human rights from the annual list of shame, António Guterres is weakening one of the U.N.’s most effective accountability mechanisms.

As U.S. policymakers grapple with systemic racism, it’s time to start tapping the expertise of diasporas.

The global transition to renewables could lead to human rights abuses and risks exacerbating inequalities between the West and the developing world.

Testimony of African eyewitnesses to the U.N. secretary-general’s death was dismissed because of their lack of education and perceived susceptibility to political manipulation.

The International Criminal Court has many flaws, but abandoning it now would give free rein to war criminals and open the door to impunity.

In Congo, thousands of people have died due to a misguided finance-driven approach to fighting pandemics that puts investors before victims.

U.S. health aid can also promote stability, mitigate extremism, and avoid costly longer-term military interventions.

The rush to link regional groups to the Islamic State could make militancy worse.

If Washington thinks that affirming flawed votes and the leaders who benefited from them abroad isn’t harming the health of democracy at home, it is mistaken.

Venezuela’s political crisis continues to evolve, and protests persist in Sudan.