Links to Rwanda fuel discrimination against DR Congo's Tutsis
Central to their campaign is the assertion that ethnic Tutsis living in DR Congo are being persecuted. Digging into the ...
The Escalating Feud Between Trump and Ukraine’s Leader
President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine traded barbs today in a demonstration of the remarkable ...
Anxiety rises in DR Congo capital as M23 rebels advance in east
As Rwanda-backed rebels strolled through the streets of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's second-largest city, President ...
Burundi troops withdraw in eastern Congo as M23 rebels expand reach, sources say
Burundi is withdrawing its forces from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where they had been fighting against M23 rebels, ...
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Congo, Jazz & the CIA: Oscar-Nominated “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” Revisits Lumumba Assassination
The Oscar-nominated documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat recounts the events leading up to Black American jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach's ...
The Street Journal6d
DR Congo: Guterres urges dialogue as M23 rebels enter Bukavu
Panic swept through Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Saturday after M23 rebels entered the city in South Kivu province People were seen fleeing in the morning, the World Food ...
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The key factors fueling conflict in eastern DRC
The past three years have been turbulent for the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a region that has experienced ...
The Nation Newspaper8d
DRC: The disabled giant
The conflicts in DR Congo are embarrassments to Africa. It is alleged that the conflicts are the bloodiest since the end of ...
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How the West Destroyed Congo’s Hopes for Independence
The burden that Patrice Lumumba, prime minister of the Republic of the Congo, assumed was an awesome one. On his young, slim ...
The Conversation9d
M23’s capture of Goma is the latest chapter in eastern Congo’s long-running war
At a news conference, Corneille Nangaa, leader of the Congo River Alliance that includes M23 ... The roots of the conflict ...
How the CIA used jazz greats as cover for a 1961 coup in Africa
Johan Grimonprez uses archival footage of the period to expose the CIA-backed assassination of Congo leader Patrice Lumumba ...
The Economist16d
A leader of Congo’s rebels vows to fight on
Corneille nangaa sits in an armchair in a five-star-hotel in Goma, the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and stretches out his hand. “Thank you for embracing the terrorists ...