Belgian artist and filmmaker Johan Grimonprez, whose “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” won an award at this year’s Sundance, will be the guest of honor at the 37th edition of IDFA. The documentary ...
Jean “Black Jack” Schramme was not your typical soldier of fortune. A Belgian plantation owner turned mercenary commander, Schramme rose to infamy during the Congo Crisis of the 1960s, where he led ...
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Nearly 300 foreign mercenaries hired by the Democratic Republic of Congo government to counter a swift offensive by Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in the east ...
Nine months ago bloody nationalist riots in the Congo (TIME, Jan. 19) shocked all Belgium into realizing that the death knell was tolling for Belgian colonialism, too. Last week from Brussels, Belgian ...
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The unfinished colonial agenda: Rwandan researcher on Belgium’s influence in Rwanda and DR Congo
Belgium’s interests in DR Congo extend beyond the current crisis and the destabilisation of Rwanda. According to research, these interests are deeply rooted in a colonial-era agenda aimed at the ...
Nearly 300 foreign mercenaries surrender to UN peacekeepers M23 rebels cornered mercenaries and remnants of Congo army after capturing eastern city of Goma Mercenaries were hired to support ...
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