Browsing: DRC

On Saturday, the head of the Ugandan army’s ground forces threatened to attack the city of Bunia in eastern DR Congo if “all forces” did not…

In this clip, @tothelefttotheleft7, an activist and organiser from The Future of Congo, rails against the world’s silence over the Western greed-fuelled, Rwanda-enabled gen*cide of the Congolese…

The Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group has captured another major Congolese city – this time, without a fight (almost). They entered Bukavu – the capital of South…

Each week, we share an African proverb – and try to relate it to what’s happening in Africa today. As so often, we think again of…

Violence against children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has reached unprecedented levels. According to the UN, there are few (if any) worse places to…

Despite Rwanda’s repeated denials that its troops are fighting alongside the M23 militia in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a wealth of evidence suggests that…

Some have tried to justify the Western-backed, three-decade-long proxy mineral war in the Congo, claiming it is an ethnic war. They say the Rwanda- and Uganda-backed…

Financial-rights activist Alex Gladstein dissects the IMF’s African operations in this video. Drawing on the case of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), he reveals…

In this clip from Episode 18 of our ‘Pan-African Attitude’ podcast on the three-decade-long, Western-backed proxy war over natural resources in the Democratic Republic of the…

In this 1964 clip, we see Pan-Africanist Malcolm X (1925-65) pushing back on CBS News reporters who, like mainstream media past and present, love to strip…