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Congo-Kinshasa

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  • CinemaCongo-KinshasaTop story

    Decolonising African cinema in the time of Netflix

    By Ana Carbajosa
    August 21, 2023
    90% of Africa’s cultural legacy resides outside the continent; audiovisual restitution is a battle for memory as urgent as artefact restitution. When film director ...
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  • View of Lake Kivu at Bukavu, South Kivu, DRC. Photo courtesy: MONUSCO/Abel Kavanagh
    African Politics NowCongo-KinshasaEditor's PicksGreat Lakes RegionRwanda

    Lines through the lake: Why the Congo-Rwanda border can’t be redrawn

    By Gillian Mathys
    May 2, 2023
    Long-standing cultural affinities of Rwandophones in the Great Lakes may appear to bolster Kigali’s historical claims to parts of eastern Congo, but it’s more ...
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  • The Congolese National Armed Forces (FARDC) reinforce their positions around Goma following a second day (21 May 2013) of fighting against M23 elements in the town of Mutaho, about 10 km from Goma.
    Congo-KinshasaPoliticsTop story

    Back to the future in the Great Lakes: Who’s backing the M23?

    By Filip Reyntjens
    March 31, 2023
    In May 2013, the M23 surrendered to a multinational onslaught in eastern Congo-Kinshasa. Is history repeating itself?  The Congolese National Armed Forces (FARDC) reinforce ...
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  • Cobalt Red. Miners washing copper ore in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Credit: Fairphone.
    ClimateCongo-KinshasaTop story

    Who wants to hear about White Saviourism gone wrong?

    By Ben Radley
    March 8, 2023
    A new book on the Congo recycles stereotypes of Africa as a wasteland in need of saving in all its promo. It’s been rapturously ...
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  • A member of MONUSCO, one of the forces in the eastern DRC where the M23 is operating, clears Unexploded Ordnance (UXO). Credit: UN Photo/Sylvain Liechti.
    Congo-KinshasaEditor's PicksPoliticsRwanda

    The return of M23: Is there a way out for the DRC?

    By Stephanie Wolters
    November 1, 2022
    Several international forces are deployed in the eastern Congo, where the Rwanda-backed rebel group continues to seize towns and territory. Last week, Angola’s President ...
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  • Chinese illegal mining in the Congo Basin.
    Congo-KinshasaEconomyGPJ

    “I am powerless”: Chinese company mines with impunity in Congo Basin

    By Zita Amwanga
    October 20, 2022
    In January, officials ordered Xiang Jiang Mining to cease operations. Nine months on, the mine is still open and residents are still protesting. Not ...
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  • In the rainforest in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Credit: Photo by Axel Fassio/CIFOR.
    ClimateCongo-KinshasaEconomyEditor's Picks

    Congo’s oil auction: foiling climate colonialism or filling the coffers?

    By Kristof Titeca, Catherine Windey & Olivier Bahati Mastaki
    August 23, 2022
    The DRC has two main goals in selling oil blocks that overlap with the world’s second largest rainforest. Neither involves developing oil. On 28-29 ...
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  • Kakule Sivyaghendera, who has been a primary school teacher for nine years, teaches in Lubero territory, North Kivu, DR Congo. He has never been paid a salary. Credit: Merveille Kavira Luneghe/GPJ.
    Congo-KinshasaGPJSociety

    “I have to work in a field”: 300,000 teachers in DRC going unpaid

    By Merveille Kavira Luneghe
    July 22, 2022
    Since primary education was made free in 2019, there has been a steep rise in both numbers of students and teachers working for nothing. ...
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  • Judges in Francois Beya Kasonga's trial in the DR Congo are set to pass a verdict on 23 June.
    Congo-KinshasaPoliticsTop story

    The unseen trial of Congo’s “phantom spymaster” and what it means

    By Jean-Michel Nlandu
    June 21, 2022
    The veteran political operator François Beya Kasonga had been one of the president’s inner circle, until his sudden arrest. Few people manage to navigate ...
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  • Uganda's military is engaged in Operation Shujaa in DR Congo. Credit: Credit: Rick Scavetta, U.S. Army Africa.
    Congo-KinshasaEditor's PicksPoliticsUganda

    “Total Success”? The real goals of Uganda’s Operation Shujaa in DRC

    By Kristof Titeca
    June 20, 2022
    Joint Ugandan-Congolese military exercises may have more to do with securing roads and oil than rooting out rebels. On 16 November 2021, three suicide ...
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