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Congo's battle against M23 strains public finances, IMF says
An escalation of fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has strained the Central African nation's public finances, ...
Warfronts on MSN1d
Inside the Congo Crisis: How Decades of Conflict and Exploitation Set the Nation Ablaze
Eastern Congo’s collapse into chaos is not just another regional conflict—it’s a long-simmering crisis rooted in colonial borders, post-independence misrule, and modern-day battles for control over ...
The Soviet Union defeated more than just the Nazis in 1945
For Africans, Victory Day was not just about the fall of Hitler, but about the idea that brutal regimes could fall at all ...
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu
He has been archbishop of Congo’s capital since 2018 and a cardinal since in 2019. Francis also appointed him to a group of ...
The Christian Science Monitor6d
In Congo, a reporter returns to a city transformed by war
On the front lines of war in eastern Congo, a Monitor reporter struggled to make sense of the suffering she witnessed.