Your phone, a rare metal and the war in DR Congo
There is a good chance that inside your mobile phone is a miniscule amount of a metal that started its journey buried in the ...
Can Africa jumpstart the Congo peace process?
African diplomacy is in high gear as leaders seek to stop the conflict in the DRC. As the rest of the world loudly cautions ...
The catastrophic conflict looming in the heart of Africa
Is it too late, asked Le Pays (Ouagadougou): have we "reached the point of no return" for another catastrophic conflict in ...
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Joint Summit Sets Highly Practical Route Map for Sorting Out Eastern DRC [editorial]
The Summit on Saturday bringing together SADC and the East African Community (EAC) was immensely practical in agreeing to effective action to fix the problems in the eastern Democratic Republic of ...
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Congolese bishops say Goma situation remains grave
With the ceasefire, people in Goma rushed to bury what locals say may be as many as 2,000 bodies of the victims of the ...
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Congolese bishops say Goma situation remains grave; full scale of human toll still emerging
As an uneasy calm returned to the Congolese city of Goma, following a unilateral ceasefire declared by the rebels, people ...
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Trump jolts African healthcare — women will pay the price
In particular, Trump’s USAID funding freeze could have devastating implications for the sexual and reproductive health of ...
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How jazz played out over Congo’s chaotic coup
Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie and Nina Simone are jazz legends, but in the 1960s, they were unwittingly used as decoys by the United States to deflect attention from its role in its meddling in ...
Could a rebellion in eastern Congo widen into a regional war?
Analysts say the deadly march by Rwanda-backed rebels across eastern Congo could widen into a regional conflict drawing in ...
110,000 people are stranded in eastern Congo as rebels are accused of forced return
The U.N. says more than 110,000 displaced people have in recent days left settlement camps in eastern Congo’s cities ...
Thousands of displaced people are stranded in eastern Congo as rebels are accused of forced return
The U.N. says more than 110,000 displaced people have in recent days left settlement camps in eastern Congo’s cities ...
Rebels attack DR Congo army ending lull in fighting
The Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have attacked Congolese government forces in the South Kivu province, breaking a two-day lull in fighting. Heavy shelling began on Tuesday morning, three days after a ...