Memories can become cruel prisons when all hope and the illusion of mercy are lost, and life is engulfed in nostalgia of the past. Memories, however, are also fuel, prompting wild actions which shatter paralyzing caution and the predetermined order...
The passing of time, the logic of science, the concept of future, the prospects of medicine: forget all this, forget all certainties secured, any guarantees of recovery, any pledges on old age. All has collapsed, crumbled, here in the regions...
Since August 2018, in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, an Ebola epidemic is underway, the second most lethal epidemic in history and the first in a context of war. The numbers are impressive with over 2000 victims...
North Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, is a land on the dangerous margin of things. Life and death have no boundaries, faith falters and evil is a tautology formed throughout the ages. Africa, Democratic Republic of...
Dawn in the hills of North Kivu is in the absence of the sun: a dense sulphurous fog shrouds the forests and villages. It is eerie and carries with it the phantoms of the night. As it lifts like a...
Congo-Brazzaville (ROtC) has for many years been looking to foreign agricultural expertise to optimise its agrarian output. Delegations to woo particularly South Africa’s white farmers have been commonplace for a decade or more, as the West African country has sought...
Seconds turn into minutes, while minutes into hours. Time passes slowly as problems continue to persist in the Democratic Republic of Congo where the Ebola outbreak is now making things worse. The second outbreak of the disease which started last...
Paul started mining at the age of 12 and was one of the children who worked in underground cobalt tunnels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He told Amnesty International that he frequently spent 24 hours down in...
The world’s second biggest Ebola outbreak is still raging in Africa, despite a coordinated response including measures such as vaccination, testing and monitoring those suspected of having come in contact with the sick. According to Médecins Sans Frontières, until March...
The ancient Greek merchant Diogenes reported a voyage to the mythical Mountains of the Moon, source of the Nile. Ptolemy produced maps showing their presume location, but Henry Morton Stanley finally identified the Rwenzori mountains, snow capped and shrouded in...
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