The Central African Copper Bonanza by Timo Särkkä analyses the Western colonial origins of the mining industry and its ...

Make no mistake, imperialism is back and the American Republic, ironically the original home of anti-imperialism, is driving ...

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

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Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

If Putin is serious about a lasting peace, it means finding a way forward which respects Ukraine’s sovereignty, provides ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. People board the first boat leaving Bukavu heading to Goma on Lake Kivu since the eastern Congo city was ...

It is high time the South African National Defence Forces' (SANDF) holed up in a UN base camp in DR Congo's North Kivu Province returned home since they have no business in AFC/M23 rebel-held ...

The UN human rights chief accused Rwanda-backed rebels who seized a second major city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) of killing children and attacking hospitals and warehouses stori ...

People watch the first boat leaving Bukavu heading to Goma on Lake Kivu since the eastern Congo city was taken by M23 rebels Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Janvier Barhahiga) ...

most infamously in the Congo, later exposed as the “heart of darkness” at the center of a European imperialism that would contribute to the tensions leading to the eruption of World War I in 1914.