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Editor's note: On July 10 in New York City, The Root was honored with the opportunity to sit down with Ghana's then-Vice President John Dramani Mahama, who was doing a book tour for his new memoir, My First Coup d'Etat:...

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 Charles de Gaulle famously said, “My only international rival is Tintin.”Now Hergé’s Tintin will have his own rival — Spielberg’s Tintin.The (battle)lines are drawn. What should be an homage from one master storyteller to another will instead become a battle...

On April 30, in Edmond, Oklahoma, a team of lawyers and process servers attempted to personally serve Rwandan President Paul Kagame with an eight count lawsuit, which includes racketeering to acquire and control the resources of eastern D.R. Congo.

While a refugee who fits the strict definition given by the Geneva Convention is, at least in principle, provided some legal protection, such as the right to food and shelter and the freedom to practice his religion, an internally displaced person is virtually invisible, his story never told, and his rights nonexistent.

Africom is overseen by General William “Kip” Ward, the Army's highest-ranking Black American, and is the sixth U.S. geographic combatant command.

A gunman attacked a women's village Tuesday in northern Kenya, threatening and chasing women from their homes, an advocacy group reported. The police have yet to take any action to stop the man, the former husband of the village's founder.

African journalists and human rights activists have always known that without the banking secrecy laws of countries like Switzerland, the level of corruption in Africa would plummet.

Obama talks of a new partnership with Africa. This implies that the U.S. will bump Africa higher up on the White House’s radar. He must be true to his word.

Blacks in the Diaspora continued the mission initiated eight years ago at the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, to demand the United Nations declare the trans-Atlantic slave trade a crime against humanity.

President Obama's decision for the U.S. to skip the global conference on racism is a disappointment. Though the one-track focus on Israel lets other countries off the hook, Obama missed a valuable opportunity to call to task other forms of racism and state-sponsored abuse as well.

Africa is the hardest hit as the turmoil engulfing Western financial markets is forcing most companies on the continent to shut down mines and factories.

Activists, advocates and scholars worry that the true purpose of Africom is to increase U.S. power over African nations, exploit natural resources and pursue American military objectives.

The United States and Great Britain’s implication in the Congo is becoming very clear. These two great powers consider Rwanda and Uganda their staunch allies, while both loot the Congo.

Following the election of John Atta Mills, some analysts believe the recent election in Ghana has marked a new era of democracy in Africa.

While royalty is a concept thoroughly enmeshed in European history, Africa's roots of regal rule is celebrated by one author's research on America's President-elect Barack Obama.

If warfare resumes and the rebels seek revenge as a result of the attack, the suffering and deaths of people in northern Ugandan will continue or even worsen.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is being ravaged by a violence the rest of the world should not ignore. Yet, Western governments continue to send arms deliveries to rebel movements and oppressive governments.

At least five million people have died as a result of wars in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 1997. The conflict is Africa’s first world war.