Congolese-American philosopher, poet, linguist, and novelist, Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, died on 21 April in the US at the age of ...

To dodge Trump’s tariffs and wrath, five African presidents played colonial subject, and left their dignity behind.

On July 4, 2025, at the 31st celebration of Rwanda's Liberation Day, President Paul Kagame stood before the nation, not just to commemorate a victory, but to issue a wake-up call. His speech was less ...

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Kibetsi is one of nearly a million Congolese who have returned to their homes since the M23 rebel group — backed by Rwanda ...

It IS EASY to make a case that Donald Trump cares little about Africa. On July 1st he closed the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), absorbing an institution that spent 40% of ...

Rwanda, the resplendent land of a "thousand hills" and a million smiles, is a wondrous paradise on earth! The monumental mathematician and Nobel laureate Dr. Albert Einstein aptly pontificated, "Look ...

This long history has left a grim record: assassinated kings, exiled monarchs, overthrown presidents, and ruling parties that ...

Bad recent history: When former dictator Mobutu Sese Seko fell in 1997, war erupted throughout Congo. A series of peace agreements -- U.N. blessed -- purportedly ended the Great Congo War in 2003.

As Rwanda commemorates its independence, a historian and a political analyst argue that the independence granted on July 1, 1962, was partial and served colonial interests rather than truly liberating ...

A peace deal between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda aimed at ending decades of conflict in eastern DRC paves the way for “a new era of stability”, Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi ...