On Tuesday 31 January 2023, the country is in turmoil. Pope Francis has arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the first stage of his African tour. All the institutions of the republic, the opposition, civil society and pressure groups...
Ebola, malaria, cholera and HIV. Names which appear so distant, in time and space. Names which sometimes appear on the news or in brief articles. Malaria and tuberculosis: diseases which don’t concern us, associated with far-off Countries, poverty stricken and...
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...
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