DR Congo
Facts, researched articles, and events related to DR Congo, drawn from the Provenance Africa archive.
Researched Articles
- Denis Mukwege Wins the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize (Article)
- Félix Tshisekedi's 2019 Inauguration and the DRC's Disputed 'Peaceful Transfer' (Article)
- Congo's Independence Day, 1960: Baudouin's Speech and Lumumba's Reply (Article)
- Belgium's Métis Children: From a 2019 Apology to a 2024 Crimes-Against-Humanity Ruling (Article)
- Mobutu Sese Seko's Rise and 32-Year Rule Over Zaire (Article)
- The World Reacts: Global Protests After Lumumba's Death Was Announced (Article)
- The Congo Free State: Leopold II's Personal Colony and Its Death Toll (Article)
- George Washington Williams' 1890 Letter That Named Leopold's Crimes (Article)
- The Rumble in the Jungle: Ali, Foreman, and Zaire's World Stage (Article)
- Che Guevara's Failed 1965 Congo Expedition (Article)
- Save the Children Once Ranked Congo the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Mother (Article)
- Virunga, Africa's Oldest National Park, Born as a Colonial Science Reserve (Article)
- Who Killed Patrice Lumumba? The CIA Plot and the Katangan Execution (Article)
- The Kingdom of Kongo at Its Peak, and How Portugal Ended It (Article)
From the Archive
- A rain-triggered landslide collapsed artisanal pits at the Rubaya coltan complex in North Kivu, Democratic… (2026)
- Former CIA agent, John Stockwell, confesses to the CIA's plan to kill Patrice Lumumba, first Prime Minister…
- The same Mobutu Sese Seko of DRC (then Zaire), upon landing in Kinshasa, sent back the plane to the Rivera…
- Mobutu Sese Seko, the former Head of State of Zaire—today's Democratic Republic of the Congo—was so lavish…
- In 1965, Che Guevara left Cuba on a secret journey to Eastern Congo. His mission was to support the Congole…
- Trump's "evidence" of white South African genocide was completely fabricated. Images he showed President Ra…
- Dikembe Mutombo, the Congolese-American basketball Hall of Famer renowned as much for his humanitarian work… (2024)
- Christian Malanga, a Congolese politician and businessman, was killed while leading a failed coup attempt i… (2024)
- The last remains of the legendary DRC Prime Minister Lumumba, a gold crowned tooth, kept as a trophy by thi…
- Africa's top 20 military powers today ranked by country, from strongest to weakest. 1. Egypt🇪🇬 Algeria🇩�…
- These intuitive Congolese folks used their elephants to pull 2 Dodge Sedan cars across an impassable river…
- President Mobutu Sese Seko of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Field Marshall Idi Amin Dada of Ugan…
- African nations with the highest number of Internet users (millions) 1. Nigeria 🇳🇬 154.3 million 2. Egypt…
- Guys, we're back. Here's the 1971 meeting where President Mobutu Sese Seko renamed Dem. Rep. Congo to Zaire…
- D.R. Congo has 60-70% of the world's total cobalt, and its demand will exceed the known available supply in…
- Read how the Congolese were already balling with mobile phones in the mid-1980s way before it became ubiqui…
- Sixty people drown and hundreds go missing after an overloaded boat sank on the Congo River near Longola Ek… (2021)
- The West colonised and shipped away Congo's resources en masse leaving the Congolese with little or no educ…
- IMPORTANT: Some African countries do not permit dual citizenship, while others do. A list of every African…
- Over 60% of the world's cobalt is mined from the Democratic Republic of The Congo. Your smartphone and lapt…
- African Powers Ranked by Military Strength: 1 Egypt🇪🇬 2 Algeria🇩🇿 3 SA🇿🇦 4 Nigeria🇳🇬 5 Ethiopia🇪🇹…
- The bust of King Leopold II of Belgium, who orchestrated the colonial genocide of 10 million Congolese peop…
- After the Berlin Conference of 1884/1885 where the Motherland was unilaterally carved up on a table by Euro…
- UPDATE: 18 of Africa's 54 countries that have confirmed cases of coronavirus, with all 5 deaths occurring i…
- Africa and #COVIDー19 #coronavirus *121 cases confirmed in Africa *🇿🇦 total is 13, 🇪🇬 67 *Uganda bans vi…
- After DR Congo's Prime Minister, Patrice Lumumba was killed by Belgian agents and his remains dissolved in…
- Nigeria has the worst police in the world, followed by DRC, Kenya and Uganda, says the World Internal Secur…
- Mobutu Sesé Seko, former dictator of DR Congo, at the helm for 32 long years of brutal rule, ensured that—i…
- Latest FIFA Rankings—Top 20 African countries Senegal🇸🇳20th Tunisia🇹🇳29 Nigeria🇳🇬33 Algeria🇩🇿40th M…
- Belgium has just apologized today for its segregation policy of kidnapping, deportation and forceful adopti…
- The insensitive speech of the King of Belgium during DR Congo's independence celebrations on the 30th of Ju…
- Rest in Peace to jazz legend Dorothy Masuka who passed on today aged 83. Through her songs Mama addressed r…
- Corruption in Public sector measured in Sub-Saharan Africa (2018). 1 Seychelles 2 Botswana 3 Cabo Verde 4 R…
- BREAKING: The Democratic Republic of the Congo's new President Felix Tshisekedi has just been sworn into of…
- The brutal reign of Belgian King Leopold II over Congo (1885-1908) led to the massacre of 10 million Congol…
- It was on this day in 1885 that King Leopold II of Belgium secured Congo as his personal estate, an area th…
- Africa adds another Nobel Peace Prize winner! Congolese doctor, Denis Mukwege, is awarded the 2018 Nobel Pe…
- The ever-vocal Botswana Government has chastised President Joseph Kabila of DRC Congo for his continual pos…
- 2001: The BBC on Brussels, capital of Belgium, capital of the European Union. Brussels wouldn't have been t…
- Remember when the legendary Congolese singer Awilo Logomba had the airwaves?