First Congo News Today

WARNING: Graphic images. Policing minister Chris Philp seemed to ask whether Rwanda is a different country to Congo - prompting laughter and disbelief from the audience.

In Kivu, DRC, conflict and instability has long made coffee farming dangerous and difficult. Nespresso, however, is investing in the region, aiming to revitalise the coffee sector there.

The resource-rich country, now facing a major rebel attack, has been racked by conflict for more than 30 years.

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“The weather is going to be horrible; I hope it’s not, but it’s convinced us to go to the grocery store and wipe them out,” said shopper Jim Gordon with a laugh.

For 35 years, the Rev. Cheryl Cornish steered Cooper-Young’s First Congregational Church through transformative times.

A moment of reckoning and a hopeful step toward democracy.

The populations in all these countries, like the vast majority of the world’s people, solidarise with the Palestinians. The “support” for the genocidal war being waged by Israel is in fact only the support of bourgeois ruling cliques.

In our latest "Minds Eye" profile, we look through the lens of a photographer whose controversial self-portrait — as an Elvis tribute artist — displayed at Memphis International Airport put him in the national spotlight.

Makambo Mtambala, originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo and now a resident of Akron's North Hill neighborhood, wants a larger following for Afro United, the soccer team he coaches.