Browsing: DRC

Not everyone who looks like you is your ally. The tragic rise in violence in the Congo serves as a sad reminder that, despite our shared…

Belgium’s destabilisation of the DRC is not just history, it continues today. From colonialism, assassination and backing dictators, to resource exploitation, economic plunder and neo-colonial control…

In 1983, in what was then known as Upper Volta—now Burkina Faso—a revolutionary 33-year-old military captain known as Thomas Sankara (1949-87) rose to power through a…

The recent surge in violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has resulted in the eastern city of Goma falling under the control of…

In a landmark decision, Belgium’s court of appeal recently declared that the systematic kidnapping of mixed-race children from their African mothers in the Belgian-controlled territories of…

Suppose for a minute that Rwanda really is only interested in protecting Congolese Tutsis in eastern DRC. How has the killing of millions of people since…

The M23 militia has cited Tutsis’ long-time marginalisation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with roots in the 1994 Rwandan gen*cide, as its raison…

Our revolutionary forefathers, such as Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah (1909-72), featured in this week’s Wednesday’s Wisdom, knew that the freedom of the Congo is integral to…

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…