Johan Grimonprez uses archival footage of the period to expose the CIA-backed assassination of Congo leader Patrice Lumumba ...

Rodney Warwick says violence in Congo had a profound influence ... immediate elections and independence by 1 June 1960, despite their own profound tribal/political differences. Fearing a French ...

Eastern Congo in recent decades has been the setting for a conflict that has caused the highest death toll since World War II. Its last major regional upheaval broke out in 1998 as Congo's then ...

Eight African leaders called for an immediate ceasefire in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where recent conflict ... threatened to ignite a regional war. The heads of state from the ...

He warned that the “war will take a regional dimension.” With Rwanda and Congo each “drawing a line in the sand,” diplomacy faces a great challenge, said Mutiga with the International ...