Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...

Thiery Michel takes an in-depth look at the reign of Mobutu Sese Seko. A man of "modest roots" who had a Catholic upbringing, Mobutu was sent to the army by his father for insubordination.

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

Harvard professor Steven Levitsky co-authored How Democracies Die, a hit book that explored the way strongmen leaders, ...

Régine Mbuyi, Executive Secretary of the Bureau National Catholique de l’Enfance, told Crux that chronic war in the eastern ...

When Rwanda's ex-spy chief Patrick Karegeya was murdered in South Africa in 2014, his former brother-in-arms James Kabarebe ...

These efforts have brought immense financial as well as health benefits to the U.S. and the rest of the world. Some ...

Perhaps more importantly, it contains some of the world’s largest deposits of key minerals, such as cobalt, which is ...

The United States has sanctioned a Rwandan government minister for his alleged role in the conflict in neighboring Congo, where Rwanda-backed rebels are battling the Congolese army and have captured ...

Rwandan troops, under the leadership of President Paul Kagame, and Congo-based Tutsi militias with Rwandan backing launched an invasion of Zaire, which was ruled at the time by Dictator Mobutu ...

AI-generated image. With the recent confirmations of Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – two of the most controversial ...