Congo snatch late draw in Angola
AFP - Sat Nov 14, 4:27 pm ETAngola were held 1-1 by Congo Saturday before a large crowd who watched the 2010 African Nations Cup hosts play their first home game under Portuguese coach Manuel Jose.
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Angola were held 1-1 by Congo Saturday before a large crowd who watched the 2010 African Nations Cup hosts play their first home game under Portuguese coach Manuel Jose.
Members of the Kumbuka African Dance Collective demonstrate the bamboula during the 2007 Congo Square Rhythms Festival.Congo Square, the historic common that is now part of Armstrong Park but was once a market and gathering place for enslaved Africans,...
The Congo energy market report offers a precise and reliable overview of the energy sector in the country. With a focus on oil, gas, coal and power markets, the report provides a complete picture of the country situation, dynamics, current issues and future prospects.
Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) -- The Paris Club of creditors may cancel between $5 billion and $7 billion of debt owed by the Democratic Republic of Congo at a meeting next week, Eurasia Group analyst, Philippe de Pontet said in an e-mailed note to clients today.
A U.S. paleontology student says he has determined central Africa's tropical Congo Basin was arid and treeless during the Late Jurassic period. Southern Methodist University doctoral student Timothy Myers said he used geochemical soil analysis to discover the new paleoclimate data.
African Nations Cup hosts Angola extended their unbeaten run to eight matches with a 1-1 draw against Congo in a friendly on Saturday.
"Portraits of War" featuring women from the Democratic Republic of Congo are on view through Thursday, Nov. 19, at the Thomas E. Golden Jr. Center at Saint Thomas More The Catholic Chapel & Center at Yale, 268 Park St.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Eight years after the end of Congo's civil wars, the outgoing U.N. humanitarian chief in the country said Thursday he hopes the slow progress toward peace can be sustained.
No people walk the Mboko backstreets, just some bleating sheep break the silence after a lightning raid by Mai-Mai tribal warriors on this market town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Police fired in the air to break up a demonstration by ex-combatants in restive northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local authorities said Wednesday.
KINSHASA, 12 November 2009 (IRIN) - The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has urged its citizens who recently fled inter-ethnic clashes in the western DRC province of Equateur and sought refuge in the Republic of Congo, to return home, saying calm has been restored in their villages.
Religious peace-building in Congo means ratcheting up a vise of pressure on cell phone companies, a Washington, D.C., international peace expert told a crowd gathered at St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo. The African nation has been embroiled in a war that has killed 6 million people over the past decade. Much of the violence is triggered and financed by the smuggling of the ore known as coltan ...
Geochemical analysis of rare ancient soil produces new paleoclimate dataThe Congo Basin — with its massive, lush tropical rain forest — was far different 150 million to 200 million years ago.
The Wailers showcase the classic "Exodus" album at the House of Blues on Saturday.FRIDAY, Nov. 13 The Susan Cowsill Band continues its “Covered in Vinyl Series” at Carrollton Station by performing The Cars’ self-titled 1978 debut. It’s Zydeco Friday...
Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have begun vaccinating 2.6 million children under five against polio and measles in three provinces, the health minister said Tuesday.
The Congo Square Rhythms Festival, Sunday November 15 at Armstrong Park, celebrates the historic role of Congo Square as the birthplace of American music. African slaves gathered there on Sunday afternoons to practice their ancestral traditions ? influencing all of...