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CAF complicit in South African football suffering continental gamesmanship, often off-field
Football should reward skill, not survival of the shrewdest. South African teams offer professionalism and infrastructure that uplift the continent. Allowing gamesmanship to…
SANDF repatriates more troops from the DRC
Personnel and equipment have been airlifted from Lubumbashi and Kinshasa to Pretoria, amid tension over unpaid allowances for soldiers
Extractive histories and a waste-laden present: On Sammy Baloji’s Essay on Urban Planning
Congolese photographer Sammy Baloji’s Essay on Urban Planning interrogates the links between colonialism, extractive practices and environmental catastrophes in Urban Africa
Overloaded barge sinks in Lake Tanganyika
Thirteen people were killed and dozens remain missing after an overloaded barge sank in Central Africa’s Lake Tanganyika overnight on Monday, the maritime inspection service said…
Great Lakes army chiefs meet for security talks
The army chiefs of Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) met on Monday for 48 hours of security talks behind closed doors. Monday’s talks in the city…
Risky election for Congolese
For a country with an unelected hereditary leader, there is a blunt irony in calling itself the Democratic Republic of Congo. This vast swath of Central Africa is many things — a…
Sixty thousand flee in DRC after army offensive
More than 60 000 people have fled their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s southeastern province of Katanga after an offensive by government troops, aid workers and…
Mine cave-ins claim 22 in DRC
Two cave-ins at a gold mine killed at least 22 miners late last month at Lunga in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Katanga province, local officials said on Friday. Those…
New plan to deal with armed groups in DRC
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda and Uganda have agreed to put an end to the presence of armed groups in the DRC that pose a threat to all of them, the DRC…