Katanga sentenced to 12 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity after ordering attack on villagers Congolese warlord Germain Katanga has been sentenced to 12 years in jail by the international criminal court for arming an ethnic militia that carried out a village massacre in 2003. "The chamber sentences Germain Katanga to 12 years in prison," the presiding judge, Bruno...
Commodities trader Dan Gertler made $67m in deals conducted with Glencore in the impoverished African country, report alleges GlencoreXstrata, the world's largest commodities trader, enriched a friend of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's president by tens of millions of dollars while also giving him loans in excess of $500m (£298m), a report has claimed. Dan Gertler, a friend of the DRC...
Phonecalls follow attempted assassination of national park's chief warden and increased reports of intimidation WWF staff have been telephoned with death threats for opposing oil exploitation in Africa's oldest national park, which is home to one in four of the world's estimated 800 remaining mountain gorillas. It follows the attempted assassination of the Virunga national park's chief warden last...
Richard Mosse has been awarded the Deutsche Börse 2014 photography prize . The £30,000 award was presented by the artist Richard Wentworth at the Photographers Gallery. Mosse won for his exhibition The Enclave at the 2013 Venice Biennale. The exhibition documents a haunting landscape touched by appalling human tragedy in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where 5.4 million people have died directly...
Government of Congo-Brazaville launches operation called 'Slap that hurts', blaming foreigners for crime wave Congo-Brazaville has expelled more than 50,000 citizens from its much larger neighbour, the DRC, over the past month, authorities have said. Officials in Brazzaville, capital of Congo-Brazaville, said the operation was aimed at ending a crime wave linked to foreigners and that all those living...
Anti-gay laws were introduced to Africa by Western colonialists. Now, as former colonisers recognise LGBT rights Africa is still stuck in the past, writes Val Kalende At a time when more countries are moving towards inclusive human rights , Africa is taking steps backwards. Backwards, that is, specifically on the issue of gay rights, though sadly not to before colonialism, the era in which anti-gay...
Artists claim recreating exhibition will help country confront its colonial past. Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire is not convinced As part of mammoth celebrations of the 200th anniversary of Norway s constitution, the government is funding two artists to re-enact a "human zoo", which will open to the public on 15 May. Oslos original human zoo or Kongolandsbyen was central to Norways world fair in...
Emmanuel de Mérode in stable condition in hospital after he was apparently targeted in attack at Virunga national park A Belgian royal, who as chief warden of a vast national park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has defended endangered mountain gorillas and other animals from poachers and the forests from illegal logging, was shot and seriously wounded as he drove through the park, officials...
Bank urges developing countries to 'enhance growth with policies that allocate more resources to the extreme poor' The World Bank has urged developing-world countries to fund social security programmes to lift the incomes of their poorest people, ending a reliance on growth to end poverty. In a report the bank said that while economic growth remains vital for reducing poverty, it has its limits. Continue...
Newly declassified 1961 cable called for grounding of Belgian mercenary hours after UN secretary general crashed in Africa Hours after a plane carrying the UN secretary general, Dag Hammarskjöld, crashed over central Africa in September 1961, the US ambassador to Congo sent a cable to Washington claiming that the aircraft could have been shot down by a Belgian mercenary pilot. In the newly declassified...
With the contemporary art scene on the continent flourishing, The Culture Trip suggests some of the people worth watching Exiled from Zimbabwe after producing an unflattering portrait of the countrys president, Robert Mugabe, Kudzanai Chiurai , the first black artist to get a BA in fine arts at the University of Pretoria, has become an important figure in African art. Chiurai uses dramatic multimedia...
International court convicts rebel leader over 2003 Bogoro attack in which 200 were hacked or shot to death and women raped The international criminal court has convicted a rebel leader of charges including murder and pillage over a deadly attack on a village in eastern Congo, but acquitted him of rape, sexual slavery and using child soldiers. Germain Katanga showed no emotion as judges convicted...
s exploration of options in Africa's oldest national park puts its investors, including Aviva and L&G, into a difficult position A war of words between WWF and UK-listed oil company Soco International about its plans to explore for oil in a world heritage site in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has come to a head after a ruling by an international tribunal. Soco, whose preliminary results for...
s Yarmouk camp shock the world, our expert panel explores the ways the development community can go beyond meeting basic needs in refugee camps • Put innovation at the heart of refugee protection work Emily Arnold-Fernandez, executive director, Asylum Access , California, USA Hosting refugees in communities is more cost-effective: Research we're currently working on shows that costs for hosting refugees...
Affleck will speak about the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo while Rogen will speak about Alzheimer’s disease Tom McCarthy ...
From the Guinness advert to to music videos, Congo’s well-dressed Sapeurs are in demand, reports African Hip Hop ...
s death was clearly suicide A British former soldier – already on death row – has been handed a life sentence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for the murder of his cellmate and best friend, despite expert reports having concluded the death was a suicide, a legal charity has said. Joshua French, who served in the Parachute Regiment, was charged with murder after Tjostolv Moland was found...
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t have it. What the current situation in Central African Republic , the crisis in Democratic Republic of Congo in 2012 and the response to the Haiti earthquake in 2010 have in common is that lives were lost, and bodies and minds irreparably damaged, by the wasting of precious time looking for 'proof' of violence against women and girls. International research conducted in countries hit by crises has...
s ministry of the interior, circulated to senior officials in the national intelligence agency, Agence Nationale de Renseignements, the police and the Direction Générale de Migration and leaked to the Observer . It instructs security chiefs to track down and arrest opponents of the government, including members of the main opposition party, the Union for Democracy & Social Progress, and suggests torture...