With Hutus at the helm, there was systematic repression of the Tutsis. This led to the formation of the Tutsi rebel group, ...

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

Press Release - The Joint Standing Committee on Defence seeks clarity on a delay in communication regarding the deployment ...

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

This war is not just a humanitarian catastrophe; it is a direct challenge to Africa’s ability to control its own destiny ...

Arthur Musombwa, a program manager with the Congolese Refugee Community Center ... each stitch a promise of future independence. Both were hoping to earn money that would transform their lives. Now, ...

In Central Africa lies a country, almost a subcontinent, roughly the size of all of Western Europe—one of the richest countries in terms of resources, yet one of the poorest in terms of resource gain ...

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 ...

Lubumbashi is little known, but its minerals electrified the world, created atom bombs and are key to greener energy, the ...

The economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - a nation endowed with vast natural resource wealth - continues to perform poorly. Systemic corruption since independence in 1960, combined ...

At least 773 people were killed in eastern Congo's largest city of Goma and its vicinity this week amid fighting with Rwanda-backed rebels who captured the city in a major escalation of a ...