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 ...

This extraordinary story is told in a new documentary ... The Belgian Congo was kept as a bubble and the people were kept ignorant, both in Belgium and in Congo,” he says. He makes the comparison with ...

The war erupting in the Democratic Republic of Congo has its roots in the Rwandan genocide and the bloodiest war of the 21st ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

Rwanda-backed M23 insurgents shot dead three boys who had picked up guns left by Congolese soldiers fleeing the rebel advance ...

Burundi troops in Congo to counter M23 rebels Rwanda denies ... Under the peace deal that ended Burundi's 1993-2005 civil war, which killed 300,000 people, its military put in place an ethnic ...

Risk of more armed actors. Eastern Congo in recent decades has been the setting for a conflict that has caused the highest death toll since World War II. Its last major regional upheaval broke out ...

The east of DR Congo has been engulfed in fighting as armed ... It is high time for this war to end. Humanity above all!" Martin Fayulu, an opposition leader who came third in the 2023 general ...

That will determine, to a larger extent, whether we have a full-scale war ... in the Congo," said Makhubela. "The eastern DR Congo has clearly become an epicenter of all sorts of civil militia ...

Eastern Congo in recent decades has been the setting for a conflict that has caused the highest death toll since World War II. Its last major regional upheaval broke out in 1998 as Congo's then ...