Browsing: Central Africa

The Democratic Republic of Congo has filed criminal complaints against tech giant Apple and its French and Belgian subsidiaries for using conflict minerals in its supply…

The Belgian government is guilty of crimes against humanity! That was the ruling passed by the Brussels Court of Appeal in a case brought by five…

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda will meet during a 15 December summit in Luanda, Angola, following both countries signing a four-point peace…

Another deadly illness – whose identity is unclear – has broken out in the Congo. The country was already in the grip of the viral mpox…

There were festive scenes in Chad, after N’Djamena announced it was ending its ‘outdated’ military pact with France. It’s not quite the severing of ties that…

Outgoing US President Joe Biden’s visit this past week to the port city of Lobito in Angola has sparked debate on the 1,300-km, US-financed Lobito Corridor.…

Biden’s gone to Angola for the loot, specifically for minerals like cobalt and copper necessary for powering devices and electric vehicles. That’s educator George Lee Jr’s…

Jokes often contain more than a hint of truth. US president Joe Biden just gave a classic example during his visit to Angola. Thinking he was…

Chad has become the latest African state to end a defence cooperation pact with former coloniser France. In a Foreign Ministry statement issued on 28 November,…

A recently collapsed ‘slag’ dump in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)’s southeastern province of Katanga highlights the danger ordinary Congolese face amidst the country’s…