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Belgium's DR Congo Complex: The delusion of relevance
Imagine a man in a tailored suit, sweating profusely as he chases a bus that's long since pulled out of the station. He waves frantically, shouting at the passengers inside—particularly one sitting ...
The vehicle for Belgium’s entry into the Scramble for Africa was the International African Association. The organization’s ...
The intensifying security crisis in parts of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over the years is undermining ...
For me, the 100th anniversary of Virunga National Park is the fruit of resistance. A peaceful resistance led by local ...
He deconstructed what he called “the colonial library”: the accounts of Africa by Europeans whose aim, he said, was to ...
Belgium's foreign minister told AFP that Rwanda's "legitimate" security concerns in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ...
Threatened by armed conflict, volcanic activity and rampant deforestation, Africa's oldest national park is turning to a new ...
The vilest scramble for loot that has ever disfigured the history of human conscience” is how Joseph Conrad described colonial-era concessions granted to private companies for Congo’s natural resource ...
New York: Permanent Representative of Qatar to the United Nations H E Sheikha Alya Ahmed bin Saif Al-Thani met Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of the Congo H E Therese ...
Prominent Trump supporter Erik Prince has agreed to help Democratic Republic of Congo secure and tax its vast mineral wealth, according to two sources close to the private security executive ...
The president’s senior adviser for Africa recently met with the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s leader. A top Trump adviser on Thursday confirmed the U.S. is moving closer to hammering out ...