Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by TOUSSAINT Éric
On 17 January 2025, we commemorate the 64th anniversary of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961).
After a resounding victory in the first real elections in which the Congolese participated, Patrice Lumumba became Prime Minister of Congo from 24 June 1960 until his overthrow and (…)
, by BOND Patrick, POLET François
The DRC is the subject of renewed interest, linked to the risk of regionalization of the M23 war in the east and to the focus on the conditions of extraction of minerals that are crucial to the energy transition. Natural resources are the sometimes distorting prism through which Congolese (…)
, by DE WITTE Ludo
A terrible myth has developed around the UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld, who died in a plane crash in 1961. Ludo De Witte explains that the UN chief was one of the architects of the Congo crisis that led to the removal and murder of the country’s first leader, Patrice Lumumba. De Witte (…)
, by FARIS Stephan, GIJS Camille
The remains of Congo’s independence leader are forcing the country’s colonizer to confront its brutal history.
The tooth’s journey begins in the Belgian Congo in the 1930s. In the Katako-Kombe region, not far from the colony’s geographic center, it pushes through the gum and into the mouth of (…)
, by OJEWALE Oluwole
Coltan is indispensable to the making of modern electronic devices but its mining causes human and environmental disasters in the DR Congo.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is rich in natural resources – its untapped deposits of minerals are estimated to be worth US$24 trillion. Gold, (…)
, by Southern Africa Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power
The Southern Africa Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power is outraged by Catoca Mine’s toxic pollution of the Tshikapa River in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Angola’s Catoca diamond mine, which is the fourth largest diamond mine in the world, is behind this environmental and impending (…)
, by NZONGOLA-NTALAJA Georges, RADLEY Ben
ROAPE’s Ben Radley interviews the Congolese historian and scholar-activist Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja. He explains that the overriding motivation of his work is solidarity with the oppressed and an uncompromising quest for the truth to elucidate the political history of the Congo and Africa (…)
, by GEENEN Sara, RADLEY Ben
Based on their article in ROAPE, Ben Radley and Sara Geenen argue that a coalition of transnational capital and the Congolese state has marginalised and held back locally led processes of capital accumulation and mining mechanisation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The full article can (…)
, by GEENEN Sara, RADLEY Ben
The analytical framework deployed by the extensive global value chain (GVC) literature on African mining fails to consider how and from whom value is transferred within the process of establishing foreign corporate-led mining GVCs, and with what consequences. The authors explore these questions (…)
, by TOUSSAINT Éric
On 17 January 2021, we commemorate the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961).
After a resounding victory in the first real elections in which the Congolese participated, Patrice Lumumba became Prime Minister of Congo from 24 June 1960 until his overthrow and (…)
, by DODDS Paisley, KLEINFELD Philip, PARKER Ben
A review of fraud and corruption risks in the Democratic Republic of Congo – one of the world’s longest-running humanitarian crises – delivers a blistering assessment that could spark major changes to aid operations in a country where hundreds of millions of dollars of foreign aid are spent (…)
, by KABEMBA Claude , KAMBALE Pascal
Will Congo’s new mining code benefit future generations? Analysts are sceptical.
For much of this year, two of the most powerful forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been engaged in a tense standoff. President Joseph Kabila, the country’s powerful political leader since 2001, (…)
, by AMISI Baruti
New development projects along the Congo River are bound to restore colonialist structures and looting of resources in the DRC. These will benefit elite companies and countries, but fail to prioritise poverty and access by the poor - serving only as a repressive tool to locals.
The Congo (…)
, by PODUR Justin
When Belgium realized in the 1950s that, given that France and Britain were losing their African colonies, it would no longer be able to hold on to Congo, it set about trying to guarantee continued control over the strategic aspects of the economy, especially the mines. At first, it sponsored (…)
, by McCANN Eamonn
Killing democracy in Congo: Eamonn McCann marks the 50th anniversary of the murder of the Congo’s first democratically elected prime minister, Patrice Lumumba.
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Yesterday’s 50th anniversary of the killing of Patrice Lumumba has put a new focus on the wars still raging in (…)
, by VIVIEN Renaud
Vulture funds continue to wreak havoc in the countries of the South. Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has to pay the price by losing a new lawsuit against the FG Hemisphere Hedge Fund before a court in Jersey. Unfortunately, this new wound was predictable.
In fact, FG Hemisphere always uses (…)
, by Against the Current
WHICH CURRENT WAR has taken more lives than the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Darfur put together?
It’s the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a brutal conflict whose elements include the “dirty diamond” trade and other minerals — including gold, copper, tin and cobalt — as well as (…)
, by MILLET Damien, TOUSSAINT Éric
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a textbook case for those who wish to understand complex notions like the pillage of a country’s wealth, the intolerable loss of a State’s sovereignty, or the concept of odious debt. The manner in which the budget of 2007 was prepared and the (…)
, by LUMUMBA Patrice
English translation of the speech delivered in Parliament (Léopoldville) after those by King Baudouin and President Joseph Kasavubu, on the day of the proclamation of the independence of the Republic of Congo, 30 June 1960.
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Men and women of the Congo,
Victorious (…)
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