including taking part in the first municipal election of 1957 – in which he voted for Lumumba’s Congolese National Movement (MNC) party “because I was convinced it had a great vision for our ...

Former Congolese president Joseph Kabila, who is accused of supporting rebels, has met with top religious leaders in the ...

An appeal signed by 75 Nobel Prize winners calls on the world to take action to end the suffering of Congolese civilians in ...

The US ruling class perceived him and any Congolese National Movement political victory as a destabilizing force. Naturally, US intelligence pretended to be concerned with the welfare of the so ...

Amnesty documented several cases of enforced disappearance. Relatives looked for their loved ones at detention sites in Goma and Bukavu, but M23 fighters often refused to grant them access or denied ...

He was the leader of the Congolese National Movement (MNC) from 1958 until his assassination in 1961. Ideologically an African nationalist and pan-Africanist, he played a significant role in the ...

Released from a Congo jail three weeks ago to lead his Congolese National Movement delegation at Brussels, he arrived proudly showing wrists bandaged from wearing tight handcuffs. Kasavubu’s ...

Lumumba is widely hailed as the nationalist activist who helped to end colonial rule. He became Congo’s first prime ... in putting down a secessionist movement in the mineral-rich Katanga ...

The city’s capture early Monday came following a 48-hour deadline imposed by the group for the Congolese army to surrender their weapons. The M23 rebel movement announced the captured in a ...