Population trends continue to put a number of African nations at the top of countries seeing the biggest increases by 2050, according to “The World Population Prospects 2019: Highlights” report released Monday by the United Nations. Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Egypt all are among the…
President Felix Tshisekedi has finally named a prime minister for Democratic Republic of Congo, and it’s longtime politician Dr. Sylvestre Ilunga Ilukamba who gets the nod. The announcement of Ilukamba, most recently the head of the nation’s railway system, was made Monday in a television address. The new prime minister…
Heartbroken, Berthe Mapendo Muke returned to the village she knew full of life only to find it burned to the ground. Green, mountainous and packed with soil, Masisi turned to ashes because of perpetual conflict from armed groups and ethnic militias. In the past two decades there’s been bloodshed in…
Roxanne L. Scott is a freelance reporter based in Queens, New York.
Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have launched a new round of security talks. Both countries have described the decision as “a new chapter” in their relations. In a joint statement with the Rwanda’s Defence minister James Kabarebe and his visiting Congolese counterpart Aimé Lusa-Diese Ngoi-Mukena they said…
On Thursday the Former Democratic Republic of the Congo’s rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda told the International Criminal Court that he was not an “infamous killer” but in fact he was a soldier who was trying to protect civilians. This is the first time that the General has spoken since he…
Today Reuters reported that in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo unidentified gunmen killed six elite presidential guard soldiers, military and local sources told Reuters. Reuters spoke to a military source, who remains anonymous, and reported that members of the Republican Guard, who are responsible for…