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Suspect to appear under ICC warrant Callixte Mbarushimana, an alleged leader of the Hutu insurgency terrorising eastern Congo and accused of supporting the 1994 Rwandan genocide is under arrest in [...]

Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation's lawyers must be preparing to rack up some frequent flyer points. First Quantum Minerals has filed its legal claim against ENRC subsidiaries over Congo assets in [...]

Premier Oil plans to more than double production by 2015 on the back of new finds in Europe and Asia. The FTSE 250 explorer, which operates assets in the North [...]

oil & gas Heritage in dispute with government No progress until tax position cleared Tullow Oil has warned that a delay in a joint venture concerning important Ugandan oil blocks [...]

From Dr Yutaka Arai. Sir, In your article 'Belgian king treads a careful diplomatic line' (June 30), a former Belgian foreign minister, Louis Michel, is quoted as defending King Leopold [...]

Six Australian mining executives were killed when their chartered aircraft crashed in west Africa at the weekend. The wreckage of an aircraft was found in dense jungle in the Republic [...]

Six Australian mining executives were killed when their chartered aircraft crashed in a dense forest in west Africa at the weekend. The wreckage of an aircraft carrying board members of [...]

Seven Cities of Gold by David Moles Good alternative-history fiction often echoes something in our present-day lives. Seven Cities of Gold centres on the search for a weapon of mass [...]

mobile & telecoms Bharti Airtel's purchase of Zain's African assets faced fresh objections yesterday when the government of the Republic of Congo branded the change of ownership at the country's [...]

The botched attempted bombing of an airliner on Christmas day has cast the international spotlight on Yemen with an intensity not seen since the bombing of the USS Cole in [...]

FT series Carbon trading Fuel-efficient stoves are proving a potent weapon in the battle to reduce emissions, writes Jack Farchy Agnes Nyanzira lives in a camp for internal refugees just [...]

German police have arrested two exiled leaders of the Rwandan Hutu militia alleged to be behind atrocities in eastern Congo, marking the first time a European country has clamped down [...]

German police have arrested two exiled leaders of the Rwandan Hutu militia alleged to be behind a long campaign of atrocities in eastern Congo, marking the first time a European [...]

The theme of social upheaval pervades Barbara Kingsolver's fiction, from the rights of native American Indians in Pigs in Heaven to the impact of colonialism in the Belgian Congo in [...]

Tintin, with his plus-fours, trademark quiff and faithful terrier sidekick Snowy, is one of the most instantly and internationally recognisable comic-book characters. Georges Remi, the man who invented him, was [...]

Mining Unpredictable application of legislation has hit investor confidence, writes William MacNamara A resurgence of antagonism between international mining companies and governments of some of Africa's least developed countries is [...]

Like many of William Boyd's novels, Ordinary Thunderstorms deals with Englishness and masculinity under pressure. But where previous characters were tested in foreign climes, as in Brazzaville Beach and A [...]

T he European Union is justly proud of its 'soft power' - its prosperity, stability and commitment to multilateral institutions have won admirers the world over. A decade ago, when [...]

US secretary of state takes offence During her seven-country Africa tour, Hillary Clinton has denounced corruption in Kenya, sought to bolster ties with oil-rich Angola, and hailed a return to [...]

During her seven-country Africa tour, Hillary Clinton has denounced corruption in Kenya, sought to bolster ties with oil-rich Angola, and hailed a return to warm relations with South Africa. Yesterday, [...]

After a season notable for a high number of new shows, Brendan Lemon looks at the probable contenders for next Sunday's Tony awards Cheerleaders for the Broadway theatre have been [...]

Arena (Michael Holman): Of course aid corrupts. The evidence is there, from Congo to Kenya. And who can doubt that most aid to Africa does not work: a greater percentage [...]

Michael Holman's view : Of course aid corrupts. The evidence is there, from Congo to Kenya. And who can doubt that most aid to Africa does not work: a greater [...]

In Mbeli Bai, a 37-acre (15-hectare) clearing in the heart of the Republic of the Congo's equatorial rainforest, the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (which runs the Bronx and Central [...]

Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles by Richard Dowden This superb collection of essays, embracing three decades of Dowden's clear-sighted, sub-Saharan dispatches, struggles to avoid the thrill of disaster reportage. His [...]

Congolese author Alain Mabanckou's second novel to be published in English is written as a torrid stream of consciousness. Its narrator, Broken Glass, is a 64-yearold alcoholic who spends his [...]

W hile Adam, Eve and that expensive apple in the Garden of Eden were the first inspiration for many artists in their portrayal of food, this association has taken on [...]

News analysis Mining groups are being hit as the downturn shows up the failures of the good times, writes Barney Jopson From the depths of the waterlogged Luiswishi mine, a [...]

News analysis Mining groups are being hit as the downturn shows up the failures of the good times, writes Barney Jopson From the depths of the waterlogged Luiswishi mine, a [...]

Katanga is blessed with such an embarrassment of mineral riches that when they were discovered they were described as 'a veritable geological scandal', writes Jack Farchy . The south-eastern province [...]

Katanga is blessed with such an embarrassment of mineral riches that when they were discovered they were described as 'a veritable geological scandal' writes Jack Farchy . The south-eastern province [...]

FT series Congo in crisis Uncertainty defines experience for Rwandan exiles, says Barney Jopson The last time Yvonne Mukana, 28, saw Rwanda was nearly 15 years ago, when a tenth [...]

Congo faces a potentially disastrous fiscal crisis whose severity is marked by its dwindling foreign reserves. Last week they were $39m ([euro]30m, [pounds sterling]26m), enough to cover the import bill [...]

The Double Club in Islington, north London, seemed the perfect place for lunch with Dambisa Moyo, a Zambian economist preparing to take on the western donor establishment with the publication [...]

The Congolese army claims to have killed nine Hutu rebels in eastern Congo as it continues a joint operation with Rwanda to flush out militias that have destabilised the region [...]

The arrest of Laurent Nkunda, the Congolese rebel leader, by his erstwhile allies in Rwanda marks a dramatic turn in relations between Congo and its tiny but militarily powerful neighbour. [...]

The fashion-art overlap that was such a feature of the contemporary art boom has come to a screeching halt, at least chez Chanel, the French fashion house. The firm sunk [...]

From Mr Phil Bloomer. Sir, Sir Humphrey appears to be alive and well, if David Miliband's letter 'UK is arguing for coherent international action in Congo' (December 16) is anything [...]

From Mr Kenneth Roth. Sir, Your editorial 'Rescuing the Congo; the UK should not stop other states from taking action' (December 15) is both timely and accurate. The UN peacekeeping [...]

There is a strong case for Europe to intervene in the crisis in eastern Congo. Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary-general, put it powerfully in a letter to European leaders [...]

If Gerard Prunier did not exist already, there would be an urgent need for him to be created. The maverick French historian is a genuine rarity, someone who has criss-crossed [...]

United Nations experts have uncovered a trail of evidence allegedly linking members of the Rwandan and Congolese administrations to rebels responsible for atrocities in eastern Congo. A report by the [...]

Peace talks over the conflict in eastern Congo were suspended last night partly because the delegation sent by a renegade general did not have the power to make significant decisions [...]

The Congolese government will hold direct talks next week on formalising a ceasefire with rebels loyal to Laurent Nkunda, the renegade general whose forces have waged a three-month offensive in [...]

An eclectic group of former presidents, financiers, writers and diplomats appealed yesterday to Gordon Brown, UK prime minister, and other European leaders to reconsider deploying a European force to stem [...]

The Double Club Islington, London From the Dadaists to the Situationists, the desire to circumvent the commodification of art has been a consistent and thrilling undercurrent in modernism. Whether in [...]

Brussels considers deploying force Civilians at risk as fighting surges The United Nations Security Council ordered the deployment of an extra 3,000 international peacekeepers to Congo yesterday to protect the [...]

Brussels considers deploying force Civilians at risk as fighting surges The United Nations Security Council ordered the deployment of an extra 3,000 international peacekeepers to Congo yesterday to protect the [...]

Congolese rebels launched attacks against government positions in eastern Congo yesterday, overshadowing attempts by Olusegun Obasanjo, the former Nigerian president, to push both sides towards talks, Matthew Green reports from [...]

Abby Wanamaker, 66, was born in New York but grew up in London after her father, the actor and impresario Sam Wanamaker, left the US to escape McCarthyism. One of [...]