The US-brokered truce may end fighting – but could also open the door to a new scramble for Congo’s critical minerals.

African Hustle is the story of Martin Fine who, at age 21, lands in Uganda where he begins a multi-year journey across northeast Africa. Fine winds up smuggling precious stones, while struggling with ...

BY KENNETH EMODI The recent impasse between the Zambian government, led by President Hakainde Hichilema of the ...

Americans remain deeply skeptical about Qatar. Critics point to its traditional support for the Muslim Brotherhood and other ...

Ugandan soldiers said they ‘occupied’ two DRC towns as the Rwandan-backed M23 continues to hold territory elsewhere.

Fourth, deep dissatisfaction with public hospitals, marred by corruption, and the high cost of better private healthcare ...

When Mobutu fled Kinshasa, the Kabila-Kagame coalition won the First Congo War in 1997. Kabila was installed as president of Zaire and changed the country’s name back to The Democratic Republic ...

He is pursued by seemingly invincible dictators Idi Amin and Mobutu Sese Seko whose violent conflicts are fueled by the Cold War, major world powers and the deadly pursuit of diamonds, and uranium.

Angola was the last stop on the tour, but undoubtedly the most important. For two decades, what’s happened in the DRC has been at the top of Angola’s foreign policy priorities. It has played a pivotal ...

Tinubu needs to be reminded that the spirt of June 12 and the symbolism of MKO Abiola that he celebrates is all about ...

He later covered the collapse of Mobutu Sese Seko’s rule in 1997 and the rise of Laurent Kabila and then his son Joseph to lead Zaire/DRC. During the conflict Mobutu’s government ordered Kotch ...