Africa’s Great Lakes are experiencing a significant rise in water levels, a phenomenon that has captured the attention of scientists, environmentalists, and the global community. While Africa is ...

Rwanda said on Tuesday that 70 white rhinos had been successfully relocated to the Great Lakes nation after a two-day journey ...

Learn about UNHCR’s work in the East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes region, including refugee and displacement data, programme plans, funding needs and our impact.

Discover why Arusha, known as the Geneva of Africa, was chosen as the headquarters for the East African Community (EAC), a ...

The UN Security Council has begun a tour of Africa's Great Lakes region to see how the cycle of wars and massacres of civilians there can be tackled. Over the past 10 years, at least 4.5 million ...

With violence worsening in both the Lake Chad Basin and the Great Lakes, the Security Council met on Monday to examine the ...

Heat waves and cold spells are part of life on the Great Lakes. But new research from the University of Michigan shows that ...

Flooding in Africa’s Great Lakes Region Claims Hundreds of Lives UN says 270 dead, 300 missing, 3,000 families left homeless President declares national day of mourning in Congo on Monday ...

United States-led efforts to end the current armed conflict in Africa’s Great Lakes region appear oblivious to one of the key drivers of the hostilities: the region’s history of failing to ...

Now, 128 years later, the Africa has been found. This summer, a pair of filmmakers working on a documentary about the devastating ecological damage caused by invasive mussels in the Great Lakes ...