Europe has changed its attitude towards Ukraine refugees
Like King Leopold II, Tshisekedi has enriched himself through stealing power and suppressing democracy. Belgium’s monarch should stand with Congolese, not the colonial past
Family hopes for answers now that a probe has been completed into a friendly fire incident that killed a South African soldier in the DRC
Differing interpretation of the Firearms Control Act resulted in the seizure of a shipment of billets bound for the DRC from Durban harbour last week
Last week, journalists exposed corruption linked to Joseph Kabila. Now a judicial inquiry is looking into the former president’s link with a major bank
Here is a recap of disputes over artefacts looted from Europe’s former African colonies.
Troops were sent to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2001 as part of the UN peacekeeping mission that became an offensive against rebels
What happened on the continent this past week
A new report says power from the hydroelectric scheme is more expensive than energy from solar and wind
Find out about the SANDF’s new uniform, which is costing taxpayers close to R200-million, while mission-critical equipment is not maintained
The verdicts handed down in Kenya and Malawi set a precedent that the quality of an election and the environment in which the election is held do matter and have a bearing on the outcome, regardless of numbers
Guinea is fighting the virus with a vaccine used in the DRC, while their neighbours Sierra Leone and Liberia increase border surveillance
Meet Gardi Koko and Navy Malela, the two whistleblowers who risked everything to raise the alarm
Elections do not guarantee greater freedom or democratic governance and have contributed to instability and economic setbacks
As senior legal officers take their battles with the head of the legal division to court, about a thousand military court cases are in limbo
The country’s governing coalition is under strain, which could lead to even more acrimony ahead
Sixty years after the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the DRC’s first prime minister, his remains will be returned from Belgium
Congolese photographer Sammy Baloji’s Essay on Urban Planning interrogates the links between colonialism, extractive practices and environmental catastrophes in Urban Africa
New undersea cables will massively increase bandwidth to the continent
The documentary film, The American Crusade in Africa, on Kony 2012 is a lesson in how not to fight simplification with more simplification.
An update of How to Rig an Election is a guide to new strategies used by authoritarian leaders to stay in power
"But what does multilingualism mean in practice in this context?"