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 ...

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 ...

It is a commentary on the public indifference surrounding the Congo crisis that in spite of its far greater death-toll it receives only a fraction of the media attention devoted to Darfur.While there ...

The Trouble with the Congo suggests a new explanation for international peacebuilding failures in civil wars. Drawing from more than 330 interviews and a year and a half of field research, it develops ...

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.

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

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