Actor Ben Affleck has been visiting a camp for internally displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He's trying to understand, firsthand, one of...
This episode of The Listening Post looks at the asymmetrical media coverage of the conflict in the Demoratic Republic of the Congo.In the News Divide,...
As the UN agrees to deploys more forces to halt the DR Congo conflict, Laurent Nkunda, the rebel chief, acknowledges partial responsibility for the upheaval...
May 2006The West's demand for Cassiterite is fuelling the killings in Congo. Militias rely on slave labour to extract the ore, forcing locals to work...
July 2005The major problem facing Africa is corruption and control of resources. In the DRC, the military is stealing minerals to sell to Western companies....
Produced by the Pulitzer Center, "Congo's Bloody Coltan" is a quick glimpse at coltan's role in Congo's civil war. It was featured on "Foreign Exchange...
