Result The Congo established as an independent unitary state under the authoritarian presidency of Mobutu Sese Seko.

Battleground Africa traces the Congo Crisis from post–World War II decolonization efforts through Mobutu’s second coup in 1965 from a radically new vantage point. Drawing on materials from recently ...

Second, Grimonprez uses jazz music as a crucial thread. There are two key places in the film where jazz converges with the true story of the 1960-1 crisis. The CIA was hyperactively involved across ...

Battleground Africa traces the Congo Crisis from post–World War II decolonization efforts through Mobutu’s second coup in 1965 from a radically new vantage point. Drawing on materials from recently ...

In a previous film about Irish involvement in the Congo crisis of 1960, The Siege of Jadotville (2016), O’Brien was portrayed ...

THE setting for one of the worst-ever civil wars in African history, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has shifted from ...

Hammarskjöld's refusal to place peacekeepers in the service of Prime Minister Lumumba's constitutionally-elected government ...

Wicked’ brings old-fashioned musical magic to the movie theater, Hugh Grant menaces two Mormon missionaries, Ken Burns ...

A proposal to change the constitution of the Democratic Republic of Congo will only intensify citizens' distrust of government, writesMichelle Gavin for the Council on Foreign Relations.

One in four people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo suffers from 'crisis or worse' levels of hunger that affect a staggering 25,6 million people, reports UN agencies. The conflict in eastern ...