Democratic Republic of the Congo

The movie “Shake Hands with the Devil” is a true story about the brutal history of the Rwandan genocide. It is originally a book that was written by Romeo Dallaire; who is a Canadian humanitarian, and retired senator, that served as a force commander of UNAMIR (United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda). The movie shows tragic scenes of how the feud between the Hutus and Tutsis affected their way of living harshly. Overall, the validity of the film is quite high, however, it contains…

King Leopold's Conquering and Exploitation of the Congo Adam Hochschild vividly tells the story of how King Leopold conquered and exploited the Congo in the novel King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. The book is written in third person telling the story from the time Henry Morton Stanley was born to time of Congo claiming their independence. Hochschild discusses the horrific things that happened in Congo at the hands of King Leopold and how Henry…

The most endangered primate, the mountain gorilla, is a species that has endured countless conflicts that have damaged their chance of survival. The Congo is a nation rich in minerals and resources, but with that said, they are also a nation rich in corruption. Due to an influx of rebels and militias there has been an ongoing civil war, lasting decades. War and illegally mined goods has been disadvantageous to the living conditions of the Congolese people and to the Congo’s environment. Mountain…

Rwanda is roughly the size of Maryland. The Landlocked country of Rwanda is located in the eastern central part of Africa. Multiple neighbors that border Rwanda include The Congo, Burundi, Tanzania, and Uganda. Another border of Rwanda is one of its numerous lakes. Nicknamed the “Land of a Thousand Hills”, Rwanda’s landscape contains hills and multiple mountains each filled with steep slopes and valleys. Advantages that benefit this environment include two consistent water sources and easily…

War’s Impact on the Congo War in the Republic of the Congo provided courage to other provinces, who wanted to gain their freedom. The Katanga and South Kasai Provinces benefited from this new hope of independence. These being the first provinces to gain freedom, other countries and provinces became influenced by their actions. The root influence of all of these actions is buried in the history of the Congo. More specifically, the Congo Cold War, and the Congo Civil War. These wars were…

The Sierra Leone Civil War began in March 1991 and ended in January 2002 after the signing of the Lomé Peace Accord three years earlier and the consolidation of power under President Kabbah. Under Foday Sankoh, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) invaded Sierra Leone in March 1991 from the South in conjunction with Charles Taylor’s NPFL forces, in an attempt to overthrow President Joseph Momoh’s government. Since the government was unable to respond effectively to the RUF, and since diamond…

man with horrible acts. He mistreated the people of Congo. After the people of Congo stood up and fight, in 1960 was the Independence Day for Congo. Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba used Soviet Union to bring order, however with the support Mobutu had by the Americans he murdered the prime minister. Ever since the colonialism Congo has been suffering with war especially the people on the east side of Congo. The conditions the soldiers in Congo deal with is the same thing with O’Brien story.…

Rwanda; a multicultural African country with more than ten million inhabitants, has a village called Banyarauanda which has three different ethnic groups; Tutsis, Hutus and Twas. These ethnic groups share the same culture, languages and some tasks such as agriculture and livestock. Moreover, when the Tutsis was in charge of the small town; monarchy, everything was peaceful and equitable; however, in 1923 Banyarauanda became a Belgian colony with a different way of rule where the Tutsis was a…

3. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY With the establishment of “Imvaho Nshya” and its sister paper “La Relève” as far back as 1960; both newspaper almost enjoyed the monopoly in the domain of print media in the dissemination of information countrywide. Both newspapers were established by the then colonial government of Rwanda when it was called only “Imvaho”(the Truth). It was a weekly newspaper since its establishment till 1994 when it started being published three times a week and changed its…

engraved upon your hearts, a date whose meaning you will teach your children with pride, so that they in turn will tell their children and their children’s children the glorious story of our struggle for freedom. For though this independence of the Congo is today being proclaimed in a spirit of accord with Belgium, a friendly country with which we are dealing as one equal with another, no Congolese worthy of the name can ever forget that we fought to win it a fight waged each and every day, a…