The burden that Patrice Lumumba, prime minister of the Republic of the Congo, assumed was an awesome one. On his young, slim ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of ...

Why did the M23 militia capture the city of Goma which lies in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo? Does Rwanda have ...

Since flag independence from Belgium on June 30, 1960 and since the gruesome murder of its founding president, Patrice ...

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(MENAFN) Over six decades after the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) gained independence, its eastern provinces continue to face violence, exploitation, and geopolitical manipulation.

A rebel outfit that easily dispatches the national army, doing so with lightning speed, must surely have external benefactors doing the propping and supplying the military wherewithal ...

DRC gained independence in 1960 and since then the UN has played a ... Faced with this situation, the UN deployed the UN Operation in the Congo (ONUC) in July 1960 . The first large-scale peacekeeping ...

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) will dispatch a team to North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

The M23 rebel group was advancing towards Bukavu in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC ... the DRC in its pursuit of safeguarding its independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity." ...