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Patrice Lumumba, the charismatic and dynamic first Prime Minister of Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo

DR Congo and the curse of Lumumba

Monday, October 06, 2025
President Felix Tshisekedi and Prime minister Judith Suminwa Tuluka is also a Belgian and, according to some reports, she did not renounce her Belgian nationality

When will DR Congo cease to be ‘Belge’? 140 years is too much

Friday, September 26, 2025
M23 rebels after capturing the city of Goma in eastern DR Congo in February 2025. Courtesy

An open letter to the people of DR Congo: Stop blaming Kigali. Start fixing Kinshasa

Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Despite its large big troop numbers, nearly 20,000 troops at its peak, and considerable resources, ONUC ultimately failed the Congolese people

Dag Hammarskjöld’s death and the UN’s long failure in DR Congo

Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Thousands of Congolese refugees at Kigeme Refugee Camp in Nyamagabe District protested against the genocidal violence committed against Congolese Tutsi in eastern DR Congo. In December 2022,

The Responsibility to Protect was born in Rwanda. It is dying in DR Congo

Thursday, September 11, 2025
From February 15 to 22, 2003, Belgium organised the first dubbed La Semaine Africaine—“African Week” initiated by then–Foreign Minister Louis Michel

Brussels’ ‘Semaine Africaine’: A gala of love or a facade of lies?

Tuesday, August 26, 2025
On Sunday, May 25, 2025, former President Joseph Kabila returned to Goma. His mission, reportedly, is to help salvage a country plagued by leadership failures in Kinshasa. File

Unity with purpose: The antidote to DR Congo's leadership betrayals

Monday, June 02, 2025
Nturo village slowly rebuilding after 300 homes of Tutsi residents were burned to the ground by FDLR in October 2023.
Africa

Reckoning with Genocide ideology in the Great Lakes region: Deconstructing history, confronting the present, building peace

Saturday, May 24, 2025
La Place de l 'Independence in Bukavu in South Kivu province eastern DR Congo. A city that was liberated by M23 rebels in February. Photo by Olivier Mugwiza

The tale of the short-lived ‘Central Kivu’ province

Thursday, May 22, 2025
Congolese refugees at Kigeme refugee camp during a peaceful march calling for action on the ongoing killings against Tutsi communities in eastern DR Congo on December 12, 2022. Photo by Willy Mucyo

Why Congolese need to stand tall and decide their own future

Thursday, May 15, 2025
Burkina Faso President Captain Ibrahim Traoré. Internet

Africa needs authentic leadership, not western puppets

Friday, April 25, 2025
President Felix Tshisekedi welcomed Belgian troops to Kindu, DR Congo, on March 17, 2025 – 300 to 400 commandos with tanks and drones.

Addicted to the Abuser: Tshisekedi’s Belgian fix dooms DR Congo

Wednesday, March 26, 2025