Among the blacks there had sprung up a quasi-religious group called Abako, which Belgian ... the Congo River from Leopoldville sits Brazzaville (pop. 86,000), capital of French Equatorial Africa ...

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 ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in Democratic Republic of Congo are seeking to advance south towards Bukavu, the capital of South ...