The Democratic Republic of Congo has been in the headlines as of late with reports about conflict and the advances of the so-called March 23 Movement rebels. But the colonial history and ...

After a century of decreased sightings, reports of a long-necked water monster the size of a hippopotamus are once again rising. What gives?

President Trump’s Africa envoy Massad Boulos has finished a tour of several East African nations, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he discussed a peace deal that could involve the ...

Rwanda’s government has blamed Belgium’s colonial rule for the ethnic divisions that sparked the 1994 genocide.

“A secret society of murderers with a king for a ringleader”.

The process of decolonialising life and thinking in Europe must start with education. The ever-present legacy of Belgian colonialism is a good place to start. In the opinion of many historians, the ...

The vilest scramble for loot that has ever disfigured the history of human conscience” is how Joseph Conrad described colonial-era concessions granted to private companies for Congo’s natural resource ...

But the Congo River Alliance of rebel groups ... earlier in the day that it was cutting diplomatic ties with its former colonial ruler, Belgium, with Kigali accusing Brussels of attempting ...