It is five months since the Supreme Court confirmed Joseph Kabila as the winner of the DRC’s presidential elections, and four months since he took office, encouraging onlookers by pledging his commitment (not...
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As the first cock crowed this morning, heavy machine guns opened fire in our neighbourhood, and Kinshasa (capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo) shook to the deep boom of shelling. Compared with those...
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130 years have passed since hot-tempered Welsh-American Henry Moreton Stanley navigated the Congo River, his newspaper reports piquing the interest of King Leopold II.
Visiting in the 1920’s, Grace Flandrau may...
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Truemors
Waking up to a dawn chorus of gunfire in Kinshasa