We prefer to remain poor and free to being rich slaves.” Pointed Question. The Congo will indeed be poor unless it can keep Union Minière’s mines, which produce more than 6% of the world’s ...

Ota Benga, a 23-year-old man from the Belgian Congo, was kidnapped by slave traders, sold to an American, and transported to ...

Ntaganda was the first person to be convicted of sexual slavery by the ICC and overall ... in both Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. He surrendered at the US embassy in Rwanda in ...

He becomes the first person convicted of sexual slavery by the ICC ... conflicts in both Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ntaganda surrendered at the US embassy in Rwanda in 2013.

but by 1550 there was no slave trade in Benin. Pepper and elephant tusks became the main exports. Afonso I, King of the Congo similarly saw the slave trade rapidly grow out of control to the ...

Independence for Congo followed a strange course of events unlike anything else in the rest of Africa. The Belgian Congo was huge and underdeveloped. After the war, new cultural organisations like ...

Congo on Thursday banned Al Jazeera satellite news network over its interview with the leader of a violent rebel group that has seized territory in the country’s east in recent days. Separately ...