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Congo Faces 2nd Ebola Outbreak In Northern Province
Health officials have confirmed a second Ebola outbreak in Congo, the head of the World Health Organization said Monday, adding…
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The Congo rainforest is losing ability to absorb carbon dioxide. That’s bad for climate change.
Increasing heat and drought is believed to be stifling the growth of the trees in the African rainforest, a phenomenon…
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Horror and hope: paintings from Zaïre
An exhibition from a few years ago gathered rarely seen works by leading Congolese artist Tshibumba Kanda-Matulu, who depicted the country’s brutal…
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Four more ways the CIA has meddled in Africa
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has a long history of involvement in African affairs, so Sunday’s reports that the…
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How the Congo crisis has reshaped international relations
In July 1960, within a week of achieving independence from Belgium, the Congo (later renamed Zaire and now known as…
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African Natural Resources: Solving the great conundrum
African Natural Resources: solving the great conundrum. It is now generally accepted that Africa is the richest continent in the…
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Patrice Lumumba (1925–1961)
By Sean Jacobs Patrice Lumumba was prime minister of a newly independent Congo for only seven months between 1960 and…
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“What can we do for ‘the worst place in the world’”? Surely this play, is not the thing.
By ROCHELLE BURGESS As an Africanist and a woman of color, I make it a mission to support diversity in storytelling.…
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