The musical cast of documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat is stellar: Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Nina Simone just some of the jazz titans whose work fills the film. And the coup? Well, that is ...
She is one of millions of victims of sexual violence in the DRC, where rape has routinely been used as a weapon of war. Cases ...
The end of one of the world’s deadliest and yet most shadowy wars is as difficult to predict as the end of the large ...
With at least 40,000 coerced into mining coltan, and several global tech brands directly implicated in funding conflict, pressure needs to bear on stopping the war as an imperative for the ...
Attempts to change the constitution of the Democratic Republic of Congo only exacerbate existing citizen distrust in ...
"When a string broke, we would replace it with bicycle (brake) cables," he told AFP. With the Democratic Republic of Congo at ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s calls for the withdrawal of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon peacekeeping ...
If Hoare had become world famous as a mercenary leader in the Congo, he was soon to become world infamous. In the late 1970s, ...
but were then driven out in a counteroffensive by the militias from Wazalendo and the Nduma Defense of Congo-Renovated. Guidon Shimiray Mwissa, the leader of the NDC-R, is a suspected war criminal ...
When Armand Diangienda founded the Kimbanguist Symphony Orchestra - one of the most famous in Africa - in 1994, they had so ...