WHENEVER the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is mentioned, two things come to mind- the first is goldmine and glory, and the second is complete, protracted, and intractable chaos.

A rebel outfit that easily dispatches the national army, doing so with lightning speed, must surely have external benefactors doing the propping and supplying the military wherewithal ...

Last Wednesday (May 18th) saw another repeat of the BBC documentary White King, Red Rubber, Black Death, on the Belgian TV channel Canvas.

A British sculptor has been chosen to make “an artistic intervention” to a divisive statue of the Belgian king ... of the Congo’s exploitation, including a severed hand and Leopold’s ...