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Residents chant slogans against Congolese President Joseph Kabila as peacekeepers serving in the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) ...

GOMA, Congo -- As a deadly new Ebola outbreak kills dozens in southern Congo, health authorities and organizations are sounding the alarm, warning they lack the funds and resources to mount an ...

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Attend Sunday’s Globalfest. In one night, this hugely popular annual music event brings listeners a brilliantly curated mix of traditional, and forward-looking, sounds from around the world. For the ...

The Congo, 18 months after winning its independence, was still in a state of limbo—but certainly not calmly. Fortnight ago, Premier Cyrille Adoula decided on still another attempt to force the ...

Women and girls in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are trapped in one of the world's worst humanitarian crises and face rampant insecurity, a senior United Nations official warned on ...

Picture it: Cuban exiles, hired by the CIA, fighting communism in Africa’s Congo. Sounds like a crazy Hollywood plot, right? But it’s a true story — one you can help bring to completion. The ...

Nine months ago bloody nationalist riots in the Congo (TIME, Jan. 19) shocked all Belgium into realizing that the death knell was tolling for Belgian colonialism, too. Last week from Brussels, Belgian ...

Kinshasa One Two is the latest project from the Blur frontman and Gorillaz mastermind. Albarn and several other producers spent a week in Congo,... Damon Albarn. Image: Simon Phipps Damon Albarn ...

Here's a brief history of the sound evolution of Damon Albarn. Back in the 1990s, he fronted the hugely popular British indie band Blur. This past decade, he formed a virtual band called Gorillaz. You ...