In the late 1950s Pan-African activist Andrée Blouin contributed to Sékou Touré’s campaign for independence in Guinea, then ...

In a previous article, we explored why there had never been a Tutsi rebel movement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) before 1995. Today, we examine the deep-rooted history of ...

Much of the collection is made up of artefacts from African states formerly under Belgian rule, particularly Belgian Congo ... state’s role in their history. “It was becoming a museum of ...

We hear about the moment Dr Max Perutz discovered the haemoglobin structure. Our expert is Professor Sir Alan Fersht, who is a chemist at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology ...

The Banyarwanda are barely mentioned in the ethno cartography of the Belgian Congo, according to the Chris Huggins ... What should be done? How can this very mixed-up history of migration and ...

Constructed over a period of four years, at a cost of £5,200,000, a 208-mile metre gauge railway line, linking the seaport of ...

MONUSCO, the U.N. peacekeeping force in the DRC, said the reported killings were under investigation but remained unverified.

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame gives a press conference at Kigali Convention Centre to urge Congolese authorities to negotiate with a violent rebel group that has seized key towns in eastern Congo in ...