Congo

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Congolese Journalist: It’s Time to Stop Negotiating with Rwanda
21 Feb 2024
Rwanda’s M23 militia and Rwandan Special Forces have been advancing on Goma, the capital city of North Kivu Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Ann Garrison speaks with Congolese…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
China in Congo
14 Feb 2024
Ann Garrison speaks to Maurice Carney about the role of China in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s mining industry.
Dee Knight
Disappointing “rush to judgment” on China’s Role in the Congo
14 Feb 2024
Dee Knight’s comments on a review by Ann Garrison in Black Agenda Report, of Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives.
Ludo De Witte
Myth-Busting: Dag Hammarskjöld, Katanga, and the coup against the Lumumba government
14 Feb 2024
UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld, was one of the architects of the Congo crisis that led to the removal and murder of the country’s first leader, Patrice Lumumba. It's time to reveal the…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Cobalt Red, How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
24 Jan 2024
Siddarth Kara’s book exposes the exploitation behind the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Maurice Carney
D.R. Congo’s Challenges: Elections, Rwanda’s War of Aggression and Critical Minerals for Green Transition
06 Dec 2023
The ongoing crisis is a result of converging forces determined to pursue their own interests by controlling the affairs within the Congo and subjecting the masses to inhumane conditions.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: The Truth about a Monstrous Crime of the Colonialists, Patrice Lumumba, 30 June 1960
15 Nov 2023
We remember Patrice Lumumba. We will not forget the Congo.
Peoples Dispatch
It’s Not Military Force But an End to Impunity That Can Bring Peace to the Congo
26 Apr 2023
Kambale Musavuli talks about the political situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo following the discovery of mass graves in North Kivu, in Eastern DRC. He also explains why the solutions…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Glaring Western Hypocrisy on Human Rights in Africa: Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo
02 Nov 2022
The US and EU are complicit in the continued Rwandan and Ugandan incursions into the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as in their support of their TPLF proxies against Ethiopia.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Rwanda and Uganda’s M23 Militia Reappears to Slaughter and Plunder in DRC; US backs Rwanda and Uganda
07 Sep 2022
Rwanda and Uganda are again plundering the Congo. As always they do so with the backing of the U.S. Ann Garrison interviews Maurice Carney, Executive Director of Friends of the Congo.