The First Congo War, also known as Africa’s First World War, took place from October 1996 till May 1997. It involved multiple ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been in the headlines as of late with reports about conflict and the advances of the so-called March 23 Movement rebels. But the colonial history and ecological ...

Rwandan-backed rebels have entered Bukavu, a major city in the mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

At the 38th African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, leaders discuss the urgent need for reparations and address the ongoing ...

For countries like India, the stakes are enormous. To participate in the post-hydrocarbon global economy, the country needs ...

In Congo itself, humans were the least valued commodity, at the mercy of the worst European failures that Leopold gathered ...

During colonial rule the country was exploited for its natural resources ... Faced with this situation, the UN deployed the ...

Belgium has a particularly unsavoury history of colonialising certain African countries and this continues to be a bone of ...

Analysis - The current conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) resemble the situation during the Second Congo ...

It is now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a name it adopted in 1964. Fabre addresses the dark history of colonialism in his motherland, Belgium, via the use of natural ...

But Tree continues key themes his creations revolve around. “I’ve long been working on the colonial past because I am from Congo,” Baloji said. The story explores the tribulations of the ...