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By Semafor Africa Photos: Wikimedia Commons DR Congo will invest $100 million to create a paramilitary force to provide security at its mines, with funding provided by the…
By Semafor Africa Photos: Wikimedia Commons DR Congo is set to send the US its first shipment of copper through a new venture backed by commodity giant Mercuria,…
By Theogene Rudasingwa Photos: YouTube Screenshots The following is an open letter written by former Rwandan Ambassador Theogene Rudasingwa, to President Donald Trump, regarding the volatile situation in…
By Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa Photos: Wikimedia Commons When the United Nations was founded in 1945, it carried the hopes of a weary world emerging from the rubble of…
By Committee to Protect Journalists Photos: Facebook Kinshasa, September 8, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on government and rebel authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo…
Uganda's life president Gen. Yoweri Museveni. Photo: Facebook Uganda’s Gen. Yoweri Museveni’s address to the nation earlier this week was a curious mix of revelation and concealment; yet…
Jacobin: "Soete had kept two of Lumumba’s teeth, which he pretended to have thrown away; upon his own death, he passed on this macabre 'family heirloom' to his…
King Phillippe. Photo: World Trade Organization/Wikimedia Commons This year marks the 60th anniversary of independence of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Those of us who came of age…
