It started with a most deceptive name, the Congo Free State, the name for what ... The Congo is one of Africa’s giant nation-states. In fact, as is often emphasised with a tinge of cynicism ...

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Conrad’s 1899 novella was a searing critique of European colonialism, but especially the form practiced in the misnamed Congo Free State. King Leopold ... Republic of ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Leaders from eastern and southern Africa ... with all state and non-state parties,” including M23. The rebels seized Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, following ...

DRC has launched a plan for a green corridor at the world's largest protected area - but local people say they haven't been ...

Concessionary companies made enormous profits in the Congo Free State between 1885 and 1908 ... and Johannesburg in South Africa. UMHK dominated the colonial economy as demand for copper increased ...

A Rwandan-backed campaign in DR Congo exposes how Paul Kagame turned his genocide-scarred country into a belligerent military force ...

African leaders asked defense chiefs for a road map to ... DR Congo. But in the long term is to work with all parties [including M23 rebels] to ensure that they have a stable state," he said.

The rebels want to provoke a national discussion on widespread feelings of neglect in eastern Congo while gaining “as much territory as possible such that they can force the Congolese state to ...

Thirty years after the violence, a related border conflict escalates, with control of mineral wealth at stake.

The AU was supposed to be Africa’s collective problem-solving mechanism. Instead, it has become a stage for well-crafted ...