Creating sustainable peace in Congo requires giving justice to the victims of war crimes and preventing the illicit trade in ...

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

BRUSSELS — Belgian cycling team Soudal-Quick Step has withdrawn its development team from the upcoming Tour of Rwanda because of safely fears over the violent conflict in neighboring Congo.

In Congo itself, humans were the least valued commodity, at the mercy of the worst ...

According to the Government of Canada website, Kinshasa is "largest French-speaking city in the world ... over to the Belgian state, which ruled it as a colony before the Congo gained independence ...

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Conrad’s 1899 novella was a searing critique of European colonialism, but especially the form practiced in the misnamed Congo Free State. King Leopold II of Belgium ...

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series ... which follows the dramatic history of the Congo in 1960 on the edge of its independence from Belgium, the ensuing CIA plot against ...

Last week, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda were on the ... And today, Rwanda is seeking to redraw the map of Africa by grabbing "a big chunk of Congolese territory while ...

Europe was on fire in 1942. Nazi Germany had consumed much of the continent and was at the peak of its military-industrial ...

it presents the theatre of world politics of the 1960s as a grand spectacle – complete with flashy title cards and theatrical trumpets. But its plot is deadly serious. Patrice Lumumba, who helped lead ...