Leaders of the East African Community (EAC) and the South African Development Community (SADC) last week on Saturday approved a new set of measures expected to be crucial in pacifying the ...

Analysts say the deadly march by Rwanda-backed rebels across eastern Congo could widen into a regional conflict drawing in ...

When Leopold II, King of Belgium, set about creating his own colony in the Congo, he used elephants - and barbaric cruelty - to clear the impenetrable jungle ...

LUBUMBASHI is a city in the mineral-rich Katanga region in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Many people might not have heard of it, but Lubumbashi and its surrounding region have ...

In Congo itself, humans were the least valued commodity, at the mercy of the worst ...

In March 1966, in a bid to test South Africa’s claims at the International Court of Justice at The Hague that Namibians in exile were free to return, Nujoma – accompanied by President Hifikepunye ...

‘Tragically, Congo’s horror remains unchanged. Foreigners full of lust, rebel groups, and a corrupt government have and are ...

The Irish nationalist was caught in the fault lines between empire and nation, colonised and coloniser, public face and ...

Like many African leaders of his era, Sam Nujoma was shaped by the struggle for resistance against colonial oppression. It was no romantic picnic.