Browsing: Central Africa

In his last message to his wife Pauline Lumumba before he was executed by a Western-backed firing squad, Patrice Lumumba (1925-61) poignantly echoed the sentiment that…

The Congolese people are living in poverty and dying at the hands of rebel groups thanks to Western greed. That’s the view political commentator Shahid Bolsen…

Dogo Browny, a remarkable 13-year-old rap prodigy from Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), is making waves in the vibrant music scene of his war-torn…

Like other Western powers, the UK has been deeply involved in destabilising the DRC. Our latest Facts of the Week unpack how British governments, corporations and…

Recent protests in Kinshasa have targeted Western embassies, including those of France and the US, as demonstrators accuse these foreign powers of complicity in the three-decade-long…

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has long claimed that his country’s military forays into the mineral-rich eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are necessitated by security concerns. Kagame…

A grenade explosion at a rally organised by M23 rebels in eastern DRC’s second city of Bukavu has reportedly killed dozens and injured around 60. The…

As we’ve been reporting, the crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) started in the late 1800s with the Berlin Conference carving up the…

Here is a Congolese take on M23, the militia responsible for k*lling over 3,000 people and displacing more than 700,000 since January in Goma, the capital…

The conflict in Congo is the deadliest since World War II, according to Congolese activist Nils Kenoani. The recent escalation by the Rwandan-backed M23 group has…