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Evangelical churches thrive in traditionally Catholic DR Congo

In the DR Congo's boisterous capital Kinshasa, a road close to the city centre is lined with traders hawking unusual merchandise: church pulpits. 

Why does the history of the Irgun and Lehi have such a poor record of cinema and television treatment?

In a small room at a safe house owned by a human rights group in rural Liberia, away from prying eyes and passing ears, Decontee explains why she quit her job on the Salala plantation. It was hard work, setting out at 5:30 in the morning every day to trek through the rows of tall […]

January 17, 2023, marks the 62nd anniversary of the death of the Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba. Sputnik has asked an expert to recall the deeds of DRCs national hero, his life and personality, comment on the legacy he left behind.

Today is the 13th day of 2023. There are 352 days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT 1992: Serial killer Jeffrey L Dahmer pleads guilty, but insane, to 15 mutilation killings in Milwaukee, ...

As one critic put it, his poetry conjured up a world built by “an ecstatic surrealist on imaginal hyperdrive.” 

(Archived document, may contain errors) 551 December 5, 1986 STRENGTHENING THE U.S ZAIRE RELATIONSHIP President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire calls on Ronald Reagan next week. This first meeting between the two leaders in three years usefully highlights U.S. interests in central Africa at a time wh en Washington has been focusing mainly on southern Africa and Ethiopia.

Colonial powers used notions of ‘care’ to expand their empires, masking darker motives of control and exploitation

The Congolese film director José Adolphe Voto who made a movie on DRCs last surviving WWII veterans made the announcement. Family members of the corporal announced last year, that he had died on 25 November 2022, aged 100 years.