For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

When global powers chant never again after atrocities, we must ask: do they truly mean repentance, or do they mean never again without profit? Belgium's colonial strategy had one objective: relentless ...

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

Perhaps more importantly, it contains some of the world’s largest deposits of key minerals, such as cobalt, which is ...

Belgium’s King Leopold also sent emissaries to secure recognition of the “International Congo Society”, an association ... fell following World War I, a map closer to what we now know ...

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ROGER McKENZIE argues that Africa's ultimate liberation depends on its ability to decolonise itself including the redrawing of its present national borders imposed by Europe ...

Even as the ashes of conflict still smolder in Ukraine, Western predators have sprung into action, with their eyes firmly ...

How do Germans remember – or forget – their colonial history and role in the Berlin Conference that carved up Africa?

Democratic Republic of Congo and M23 rebels will engage in direct negotiations in the coming days to end the conflict in the ...