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 ...

Director Johan Grimonprez discusses Soundtrack to a Coup d'État, his powerful exploration of Congo's decolonization struggle, in conversation with Peter Mertens, Belgian political leader and author of ...

His love of the battle, which spans 1861 to 1865, began when in the fourth grade, he watched a Civil War documentary. “From time to time, I would go into deep dives” of research, Kartik explained, ...

A rebel militia known as M23 has seized the key Congolese city of Goma, threatening displaced civilians and raising fears of a broader war ... of its troops into Congo. Some 500,000 people ...

A dire humanitarian situation, risk of regional war The humanitarian situation in Goma “is extremely, extremely worrying,” Bruno Lemarquis, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Congo ...

The United Nations reported widespread panic among the city's two million residents, and Congo's government condemned the rebel advance as a "declaration of war." The rebels issued their statement ...

Congo’s foreign minister, Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner, told the Security Council that Rwanda was committing “a frontal aggression, a declaration of war which no longer hides itself behind ...

Congo’s foreign minister, Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner, told the Security Council that Rwanda was committing “a frontal aggression, a declaration of war which no longer hides itself behind ...

as the United Nations described a mass panic among its 2 million people and Congo’s government said the rebel advance was a “declaration of war." The M23 rebels announced the city's capture in ...