Rwanda-backed rebels advance into eastern Congo’s 2nd major city of Bukavu, residents say
Rwanda-backed rebels in eastern Congo have claimed that they have seized a second airport in the region following a days-long ...
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Across the world, conservation projects reel after abrupt US funding cuts
Conservation projects across the world are reeling from the Trump administration’s abrupt decision to shut down USAID and ...
Armed fighters have raped scores of children in eastern Congo, UNICEF says
The U.N. children’s fund is accusing armed men, likely on both sides of the conflict in eastern Congo, of raping scores of ...
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How the West Destroyed Congo’s Hopes for Independence
Patrice Lumumba became the prime minister of newly independent Congo. His close ally Andrée Blouin describes how Belgium and ...
A Training School For Elephants by Sophy Roberts: The four elephants that broke their backs to build an empire
When Leopold II, King of Belgium, set about creating his own colony in the Congo, he used elephants - and barbaric cruelty - to clear the impenetrable jungle ...
African Countries And Their National Animals
The African fish eagle is the national animal of Zambia and symbolises the country's hope for the future and its conquest of ...
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Coincidences in February 26th Berlin Conference, Congo talks
In Congo itself, humans were the least valued commodity, at the mercy of the worst ...
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Elephants and the Castle
This much is evident in the other elephants that have taken up residence in Nigeria’s palatial sitting room in recent times. Namely, the protracted legal tussle over the Mambilla Hydro-electric ...