Congo

INTRODUCTION by David Sims: Africans have been arriving at the US-Mexican border, hoping to enter the United States when Trump’s effort to keep them out falters. Some of the African migrants are from Congo, where a deadly epidemic of Ebola is currently occurring. Patriotic and alternative…

DAN GERTLER, an Israeli with extensive investments in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is among the first people targeted for sanctions under a new U.S. anti-international corruption law. Dan Gertler is among “13 serious human rights abusers and corrupt actors,” the Treasury Department said…

by Michael Walsh EUROPE’S decolonisation of Africa is generally accepted as the price paid for transfer of power from White to Black rule. Not true: The concept of “African independence” was a massive deception on a par with that of the so-called “Russian Revolution,”…

by Michael Walsh THE Last Gladiators was very much a trip down Memory Lane for me. I was in Zaire — then the Belgian Congo — for several months at the time of the Congo Crisis. It was an appalling blood-stained conflict that plunged the Cold War into stark relief during the 1960s. Those were…

Heart of blackness PATRICE LUMUMBA, the liberal hero of Zaire (ex-Belgian Congo) once expounded: “We will show the world what the black man can achieve when he works in liberty.” Lumumba, a convicted embezzler, forger and thief, belonged to the Batatela, a tribe of cannibals whose remarkable…