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The International Court of Justice previously ordered Uganda to pay reparations to DR Congo, but this is the final decision on the exact amount the country has to pay for the effects of a brutal 1998-2003 war.
The minister of Defence is yet to seek parliamentary approval on the deployment of national forces in DR Congo
To him, the wars he has fought, more pronounced from 1981 over disputed elections a year earlier, are just wars to which he was provoked
A Small Village Takes On Big Oil In 'How Beautiful We Were' By Tochi Onyebuchi | NPR Random House A madman commits one of the first acts of rebellion in Imbolo Mbue's vast second novel. In the village of Kosawa, a battle is raging: On one side, the citizens of this once-idyll. On the other, the mammoth oil company Pexton, which has, over generations, polluted the village's water and air and ground and, through its malfeasance, killed a growing number of its children. With smooth prose from a number of narrators among the villagers, How Beautiful We Were tells the multi-generationa...
Imbolo Mbue's new novel is set in an unnamed country that could be any West African nation beset by international oil companies — and yet, it's a story of rebellion and rebirth, not calamity.