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

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

An even more dramatic possibility also looms: in a repeat of history, Kagame might be planning regime ... march all the way to Kinshasa and depose then President Mobutu Sese Seko. That man’s name was ...

A civil war toppled Mobutu in 1997; his successor ... The Catholic Church, which has a long history of monitoring Congo’s elections, accused the national electoral commission of presiding ...

It also violated the custom that swaps involve similar sorts of prisoners—spies for spies, or criminals for criminals. Mr ...

History is repeating itself. Neocolonialism now shapes the extraction of DRC resources ... Patrice Lumumba. He was intent on reunifying Congo. Mobutu Sese Seko became president of Zaire (today’s DRC) ...

By Abdul OrohAt the height of his absolute power, General Ibrahim Babangida made it known, both in words and deeds, that he was a man who craved a space in the history of Nigeria as a ...

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Even the all-powerful Donald Trump will find it hard to break through the maze of this US ‘secret’ funding system.