Joseph Kabila’s Defiant Return: A Crossroads for the Democratic Republic of Congo In a dramatic re-emergence that has sent shockwaves across the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), former President Joseph Kabila has broken years of silence with a fiery address,...
On 5 July 1960, only five days after the Congo’s independence, the commanding general of the newly formed Congolese national army, Emile Janssens(He described himself as the “Little Maniac” (Petit Maniaque), called a meeting with his non-commissioned officers...