Today, the red ribbon is globally recognised as the symbol of support in the fight against Aids. But how did this folded ...

Biden’s visit to Angola – the first by any US president ever – is a rare chance to help the people of Angola by highlighting ...

In a previous film about Irish involvement in the Congo crisis of 1960, The Siege of Jadotville (2016), O’Brien was portrayed ...

Massive quantities of copper deposits were discovered when a mountain collapsed in the Grand-Katanga area, south of the ...

There were foreign pavilions, too, that showed an imperial Denmark extending its reach to Greenland and Belgium displaying the embellished buildings of what was then known as the Belgian Congo ... a ...

THE setting for one of the worst-ever civil wars in African history, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has shifted from ...

A fascinating new documentary by Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez ... the end of colonialism in the Democratic Republic of Congo. With the assassination of Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba ...

Hammarskjöld's refusal to place peacekeepers in the service of Prime Minister Lumumba's constitutionally-elected government ...

There is rarely much journalistic headspace devoted to enquiring about why crises persist in particular geographies.

It is similarly difficult to understand the horrific trajectory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo without reference to its occupation by Belgium, including the ... wherever one encounters a ...

Former UK foreign secretary, now president of the International Rescue Committee, talks to Kamran Abbasi about hospital attacks in war, the US president elect, and how his parents were refugees ### ...

Around the affluent world, new hostility, resentment and anxiety has been directed at immigrant populations that are emerging ...