Independence for Congo followed a strange course of events unlike anything else in the rest of Africa. The Belgian Congo was huge and underdeveloped. After the war, new cultural organisations like ...

What a coincidence that February 26th is arriving at this time! It is the day, 140 years ago, when the colonial powers (today you would call them land grabbers) held the Congo Conference, also ...

Belgium has successfully pushed the EU to impose sanctions on its former colony, Rwanda, over its military involvement in DR Congo. Rwanda has not taken the decision ...

Angola announced last week that it will begin mediating direct ceasefire negotiations between the militants and DR Congo ...