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A child with a Congolese flag in the Katanga village near Lubumbashi, during an official visit of the Belgian Royal couple to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Saturday 11 June 2022. (BENOIT DOPPAGNE/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images)

143 deaths linked to illness in DRC

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump | Firefighters work on a fire on a building after bombings on the eastern Ukraine town of Chuguiv on February 24, 2022, as Russian armed forces are trying to invade Ukraine from several directions, using rocket systems and helicopters to attack Ukrainian position in the south, the border guard service said. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Another world war? We are already there

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com

A teddy bear hanging from a tree in front of a building bombed by the Russian army in Borodyanka (Ukraine), 6 April 2022. (Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

A time of 45 wars

Lucian K. Truscott IV

TOPSHOT - A picture taken on November 13, 2018, shows Tanzanian soldiers from the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) patroling against Ugandan Allied Democratic Force (ADF) rebels in Beni. - The Beni area has for the last four years been under seige from the ADF, an Islamist armed group that has killed hundreds of people since 2014. (Photo by John WESSELS / AFP) (Photo credit should read JOHN WESSELS/AFP/Getty Images) (John Wessels/AFP/Getty Images)

The forgotten trauma of a forgotten war

Nick Turse - TomDispatch.com

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The Congolese army and mercenary column advancing towards Stanleyville, Nov. 28, 1964. (AP/Mannock)

My secret Cold War mission in the Congo

James M. Hawes, Mary Ann Koenig

In Congo: Mariam Aboubakar Esperance, Esther Nsapu, Cristi Hegranes, Noella Nyirabihogo and Merveille Kavira Luneghe. (Brad Argo)

When women speak for themselves

Lauren Schiller

Pussy Riot (Getty/Vincent Jannink)

Pussy Riot on Putin and Trump

Fernanda Eberstadt

(Illustration by Sishir Bommakanti/Narratively)

Crystal Ponti - Narratively

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A waterfall in the Amazon rainforest. (Shutterstock)

Hyacinth Mascarenhas - GlobalPost

A still from "Virunga"

When war comes to paradise

Liberian security officers in Monrovia (AP/Abbas Dulleh)

Tristan McConnell - GlobalPost

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Sarah Wolfe - GlobalPost

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In this Nov. 21, 2008 file photo, United Nations MONUC peacekeepers ride towards Goma, in Kibati, eastern Congo. (AP)

Sarah Wolfe - GlobalPost

Tristan McConnell - GlobalPost

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