Sammy Baloji verknüpft in seiner Fotoserie „Mémoire“ Schwarz-Weiß-Archivaufnahmen aus der belgischen Kolonialzeit mit aktuellen Fotografien der Minenstadt Lubumbashi in der…
Berlin, DRC, Mémoire, Photography, Sammy BalojiPosts by tag: DRC
Resolution 2098 was officially adopted by the Security Council of the United Nations on 28 March this year. It refers…
DRC, Goma, Intervention Force Brigade, Monusco, North Kivu, Resolution 2098
This is it: Concept Phone (c) FairPhone As a conscious consumer, you know that your smartphone probably contains raw materials…
conflict-free raw materials, Congo, DRC, Fairphone, Kivu, smartphone, tinEast Africa’s Great Lakes Region has ever since been a melting pot for dozens of different population groups from what…
DRC, history, Kivu, Migration, refugeesDie M23-Rebellen haben nach nur elf Tagen Goma verlassen, die Armee ist zurück vor Ort. Jetzt werfen die Rebellen Präsident…
DRC, Goma, Joseph Kabila, M23, Nord-Kivu, UgandaDuring the past week observers could witness tremendous changes in the stability situation in the DR Congo’s North Kivu region….
Benjamin Mkapa, DRC, Frederick Chiluba, Goma, joint statement, Kampala, Kenya, Laurent Désiré Kabila, M23, military intervention, Monusco, North Kivu, Pasteur Bizimungu, Robert Mugabe, Rwanda, Sam Nujoma, Tanzania, Uganda, Yoweri MuseveniNo Congolese army in town while the inhabitants of Goma and with them about 20.000 UN soldiers simply watched the…
DRC, Goma, M23 movement, rebels, warfare
Die kongolesischen Berühmtheiten der Band Staff Benda Bilili besteigen Ende September mal wieder das Flugzeug und begeben sich in den…
check ya mziki, DRC, Music, Roger Landu, Staff Benda BililiWhat history hides behind the social composition of the Kivus? Episode III: The Rwandan Genocide and its significance for the…
Bahutu, Banyarwanda, Batutsi, DRC, extremists, FAR, Génocidaires, genocide, Habyarimana, Interahanwe, international community, KIVU-SERIES, North and South Kivu, Paul Kagame, refugees, RPF, Rwanda, UNHCRFour days ago, thousands of people took to the streets all over the Democratic Republic of Congo to express their…
Congolese Army, displaced people, dissatisfaction, DRC, fighting, M23 movement, North Kivu, protestsAl Jazeera and several international news agencies have been reporting that Paul Kagame’s government in Kigali has recently been put…
Aid, DRC, involvement, Kivu regions, national budget, pressure, Rwanda, warfareWhat history hides behind the social composition of the Kivus? Episode I: Resettlement to the Kivus under Belgian rule Media…
DRC, history, Kivu, North Kivu, series, South KivuWhile the main attention was put on the actual preventive actions and the strategic positioning of UN forces of the…
DRC, Goma, helicopter attacks, M23, Monusco, North KivuGoma’s residents fear the rebels of the M23 movement. They are reported having seized several strategically important towns in the…
Bosco Ntaganda, CNDP, Desire Kamanzi, DRC, FARDC, Goma, ICC, Laurent Nkunda, M23 movement, peace agreement, Raymond Tshibanda, RPF, Thomas LubangaSince the outbreak last week, fierce fighting has been reported from the DRC’s North Kivu region. After rebel forces from…
DRC, fighting, Goma, M23 movement, Monusco, North Kivu, UNOOnce more the Great Lakes Region is shaken by enormous clashes between rebel forces and official soldiers of the Congolese…
DRC, fighting, refugees, Uganda24th April, World Malaria Day, Geneve: WHO celebrates the progress made in Malaria treatment and present their new initiative for…
DRC, Malaria, MSF, T3, WHO, World Malaria DayYesterday four out of the 11 presidential candidates still called for the annulment of ongoing presidential- and parliament elections because…
AU, COMESA, DRC, ECCAS, Election Commiss, ICGLR, presidential election, SADCNot enough ballot paper, pre-marked papers, unpaid electoral workers and now the call for annulment of the elections people longed…
ballot rigging, BBC, DRC, election commision, fraud, Kabila, Monusco, presidential elections, Vital KamerheToday’s presidential elections in the DRC were ruled by a general fear of violence. In DRC’s second biggest city Lubumbashi…
DRCBBC Africa as well as Al Jazeera reported about the opening of the polling stations in the Democratic Republic this…
Al-Jazeera, BBC Africa, DRC, polling stations, presidential electionsThe Democratic Republic of Congo will see its second free presidential and parliament elections tomorrow. It is an exceptional event…
Ban Ki-moon, Congo, DRC, elections, president, South Africa, votesIndependent observers expect the upcoming general presidential elections on the November 28 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to…
DRC, Human Rights groups, MLC, presidential electionsSince one of the two most active volcanoes in Africa, Nyamarugira and Nyiragongo, erupted heavily on November 6, the regional…
DRC, Nyamarugira, Nyiragongo, tourism, Virunga Mountains, Virunga National Park, Volcanic Eruption Trek
The two volcanoes Nyamarugira and Nyiragongo belong to the most active volcanoes in Africa as well as…
DRC, East African Rift Valley, Goma, Lake Kivu, Nyamarugira, Nyiragongo, Virunga Mountains