When talking about the origin of the ethnic conflict in eastern DR Congo – in the Kivus – many people fail to understand that it is a project born in Brussels. Most people don't realize, as Tom ...
As his comrades died of starvation and thirst around him, Mbale Hafashimana Amos finally decided to flee the Congolese bush ...
What if a genocide like the ones in Rwanda or in Srebrenica were to happen today? Would the global response be any different?
A 12-year-old boy and his grandmother cut the ribbon at UN Headquarters on Monday to inaugurate a flower-shaped memorial to ...
Some 165 medical professionals have received fellowships through Save a Child's Heart; the nonprofit has helped over 8,000 ...
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Filip Reyntjens and his colonial hangover

There are many ways to illustrate the lingering grip of colonial arrogance, but few are as undiluted, and as unmistakably absurd as the behaviour of certain European academics who still imagine that ...
Despite its vast natural resources, which include gold, diamonds, uranium, cobalt and copper, the DRC ranks among the world's ...
From the way we watch old movies to the shape of global geopolitics, the story of what has transpired in Gaza over the last ...
The M23 is backed extensively by Rwanda, which has long sought the return of refugees from DRC, including those it regards as ...
By Paulina KubiakA 12-year-old boy and his grandmother cut the ribbon at UN Headquarters on Monday to inaugurate a ...
If Arabic from Syria to Mauritania and from Morocco to the Comoros can be treated as one language, then the present classification of African languages needs serious revision .
Princess Speciose Mukabayojo, sister to Rwanda’s last two monarchs and long exiled in Kenya, will be laid to rest in the ...