On the morning of June 30, 2025, as DR Congo marked 65 years of independence, a civilian aircraft delivering humanitarian aid to Minembwe was shot down by the very government responsible for ...

Colonial policies had deliberately administered the Arab-Muslim North separately from the African, Christian, and Animist South, fostering deep-seated mistrust and inequality that post-independence ...

Nursing homes already struggling to recruit staff are now grappling with President Donald Trump’s attack on one of their few ...

I must say, when I first saw the words “Visit Congo” I thought they were talking about the other Congo, Congo Brazzaville. I honestly couldn’t fathom that it was in reference to Felix Tshisekedi’s DR ...

“We fear that today’s scramble for critical minerals risks becoming another form of neo-colonial exploitation, destabilizing ...

The clean energy revolution is being built on the backs of enslaved children and at the cost of strengthening China.

Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest-serving prime minister who retired from office in 2020 after a bout of health problems, was shot ...

The most recent global education figures make for grim reading. Nearly 200 million children and youth are missing out on ...

Some say Trump is alive because he was lucky. The origin of luck as a concept is worthy of debate, and calling the president lucky isn’t necessarily wrong. Some may call it fate, others kismet, but ...

William F. Buckley Jr.’s influence has been overstated, writes Bruce Fein in a review of a new biography of the late conservative thinker.

The US democracy sold as pure, moral and unprecedented is increasingly under lens.  Behind the facade of democratic virtue lies a history of conquest, slavery and imperialism; carefully constructed na ...