The Belgian Congo was huge and underdeveloped. After the war, new cultural organisations ... There were no African army officers, only three African managers in the entire civil service, and ...

A South African-led multinational force that held Goma for over a year was surrounded and pushed back in January; by March, they had completely withdrawn. With Congo’s military situation in such ...

The mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been dogged by conflict ... in the 1990s when two huge conflicts, dubbed Africa's World Wars, resulted in the deaths of millions ...

The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been smoldering for decades HARARE, March 11. /TASS/. The Southern African Development ... and the defeat in the civil war in 1993, part ...

Leading sources for those critically important metals (known as the “3 T’s”) are mined in Congo, where a brutal civil war has claimed ... from mines in Africa to smelters in Malaysia and ...

Rwanda has agreed to allow troops deployed by the Southern Africa bloc to fight rebels ... Kinshasa's fight against rebel groups in Congo's war-ravaged eastern borderlands in December 2023.

Africa's oldest national park is turning to a new product to raise its profile and boost conservation efforts: chocolate gorillas. Virunga National Park in war-ravaged eastern Congo is marking its ...