Browsing: DRC

The war in Congo can be confusing, but in this video, @dylan.page gives a nice, clear summary of some of the key factors: vast mineral resources,…

What is wrong with the DRC? In this clip (from the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit in 2021), US economist Jeffery Sachs breaks it down, challenging Western…

In this clip, Congolese-British presenter, singer and instrumentalist Priscilla Toko uses an illustration by @mkadima01 (on Instagram) to drive home that the war in the Democratic…

Town after town in North and South Kivu (east DRC) is falling into the hands of M23 rebels – aggravating one of Africa’s worst displacement crises…

Is there a ‘Rwandan exception’ to international law? According to the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) foreign minister, Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, there seems to be…

Central to the escalating war in DRC is the country’s vast mineral wealth – valued at an astonishing $24 trillion. A significant share of Congolese minerals…

Inviting French President Emmanuel Macron to get involved in resolving an African dispute is akin to calling an arsonist to help put out a fire. Yet,…

Global attention has locked on the rapidly escalating situation in the mineral-rich eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels claim they…

This haunting video has surfaced, allegedly showing a Congolese soldier in his final moments of despair. Injured by a bullet and trapped in the dense…

With the Kigali-backed M23 rebels making rapid gains in eastern DRC, here’s a flashback to 2022 – when Rwanda’s president, Paul Kagame, openly admitted that plundered…