Press Release - Over the past week, South Africa has paid the high cost for countries whose soldiers take part in a conflict that has turned the lives of millions of Congolese upside down.

International protests spring up in South Africa and Brussels as demonstrators call for the EU and the global community to do more to sanction those accused of enflaming the ...

Uganda has deployed more than 1,000 extra soldiers into east Congo in the last week, four diplomatic and U.N. sources said, near an area where the Kinshasa government is fighting M23 rebels and there ...

The South African National Defence Force confirmed on 27 January that three more soldiers had been killed in fighting near ...

In approximately 1,966 classrooms across 429 schools in Bangkok, 744 classrooms have been upgraded with air conditioning, and many are now equipped with air purifiers as part of the Bangkok ...

The impact of imperial expansion in art highlights how subjugation and oppression are not simply a matter of territory, but also a matter of identity and expression”. Zara Hossain explores Picasso's ...

Multinational corporations are the modern-day Leopold II, albeit with better PR teams. Despite numerous pledges for ethical sourcing, many tech giants continue to profit from Congo's misery. A 2022 ...

Many of the millions of people trapped in eastern Congo’s escalating rebellion face a terrible choice: Retreat into Congo’s ...

M23 rebels' patrol Gisenyi border point, Congo, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, after they advanced into eastern Congo's capital ...

Julien Fournié pulled out all the stops Tuesday at the Théâtre Mogador, presenting ''First Circus,'' a daring haute couture that provocatively blurred the boundaries between fashion and performance.

Fighting has escalated sharply in recent weeks in eastern Congo, where rebels have seized key towns and are closing in on the ...

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