Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo - February ... FOOTAGE OF THE RALLY AT THE UNITY STADIUM IN RUBBER CALLED BY THE REBEL GROUP M23. INCLUDES IMAGES OF CORNEILLE NANGAA, HEAD OF THE ALLIANCE ...

This year rebels, backed by Rwanda, took over the eastern city of Goma, in a region which has never enjoyed much ... Once King Leopold concentrated on ivory and rubber. Now the range of the country’s ...

Uganda primarily exports lime and cement, palm oil, beer, sugar, iron and steel, rice, scrap iron and steel, cocoa beans, ...

The invasion and occupation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the extraction of its natural resources, which ...

The UK will soon impose sanctions on Rwanda over its alleged support for the M23 rebel group, which has seized territory in ...

Rubber, ivory, gold and diamonds have all wrought ... Mount Nyiragongo, an active volcano, looms over Goma. Image by John Cannon/Mongabay. That instability in the eastern DRC has facilitated ...

Goma is a city of close to a million people ... Dating back to the slave trade and the ruthless exploitation of rubber and minerals, colonialism entrenched divisions between the Hutus and Tutsis.

During Leopold’s rule, more than ten million Congolese lost their lives when they were forced to work in the rubber and ivory ... and coltan-rich city of Goma and petitioned for a ceasefire ...