LUBUMBASHI is a city in the mineral-rich Katanga region in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Many people might not have heard of it, but Lubumbashi and its surrounding region have ...

Congo stands on the brink of being at the centre of a devastating new regional war. Europe should act in its own self-interest to avert further humanitarian catastrophe ...

The conflicts in DR Congo are embarrassments to Africa. It is alleged that the conflicts are the bloodiest since the end of ...

For countries like India, the stakes are enormous. To participate in the post-hydrocarbon global economy, the country needs ...

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

Mobutu would then order Lumumba to be sent to the breakaway province of Katanga. Belgian secretly arranged his transfer ... It was the height of the Cold War at the time and the Soviet Union took ...

A racial civil war was averted, thanks in large measure to the mature collective ... Documents recovered in South Africa, but since missing, implicate the UK and US intelligence networks, a ...

‘Tragically, Congo’s horror remains unchanged. Foreigners full of lust, rebel groups, and a corrupt government have and are ...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A U.S. pause on foreign aid has had a "major impact" in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where ...

A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine met ...

Pressed on whether this was enough though, given there is now a war in Europe, the defence secretary pointed to how all European nations are expanding their defence expenditure as well as their ...