Europe was on fire in 1942. Nazi Germany had consumed much of the continent and was at the peak of its military-industrial ...

it presents the theatre of world politics of the 1960s as a grand spectacle – complete with flashy title cards and theatrical trumpets. But its plot is deadly serious. Patrice Lumumba, who helped lead ...

Creating sustainable peace in Congo requires giving justice to the victims of war crimes and preventing the illicit trade in ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian cycling team Soudal-Quick Step has withdrawn its development team from the upcoming Tour of Rwanda because of safely fears over the violent conflict in neighboring Congo.

The burden that Patrice Lumumba, prime minister of the Republic of the Congo, assumed was an awesome one. On his young, slim ...

In Congo itself, humans were the least valued commodity, at the mercy of the worst ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, have since been advancing around one of Africa's great lakes, Lake Kivu, towards the second-biggest city ...

Congo has not commented on reports concerning ... the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every ...

SOMETHING AWFUL is happening in Congo. A rebel group called M23 seized ... The alternative—to let Mr Kagame keep his Donbas—is far worse. A world in which the strong seize territory from ...

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Conrad’s 1899 novella was a searing critique of European colonialism, but especially the form practiced in the misnamed Congo Free State. King Leopold II of Belgium ...