Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie and Nina Simone are jazz legends, but in the 1960s, they were unwittingly used as decoys by the United States to deflect attention from its role in its meddling in ...

A newly surfaced historical image from Belgium’s highly protected archives has reignited debate over the country’s dark colonial legacy in Central Africa. The image, depicting Belgian royalty during ...

The past three years have been turbulent for the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a region that has experienced ...

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

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

Johan Grimonprez uses archival footage of the period to expose the CIA-backed assassination of Congo leader Patrice Lumumba ...

In the wake of ongoing instability in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Goma has become a focal point of ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of ...

Ombeni ran out the office and into the street, where crowds tried to dodge bullets and vehicles speeding through the city, ...

Lange's study revealed that the most common ancestor of Zaire ebolavirus was circulating in the forests of what is now the ...

Congo’s plight is deeply rooted in its colonial past ... massacring millions and institutionalizing extractive economic policies that persist today. Even after independence in 1960, Western powers ...