Across Africa, many countries have changed names, over time, freeing themselves from the identity given to them during colonial rule. These changes symbolise freedom, unity, and a return to indigenous ...
Boxing legend Mike Tyson received a hero’s welcome in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, as he embraced his Congolese heritage during the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the iconic ...
Listen to more stories on the Noa app. George Orwell was dying when he wrote 1984 in the late 1940s on the desolate Isle of Jura in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides. Tuberculosis ravaged his body, and typing ...
Former prime minister and ODM leader Raila Odinga joins a group of African leaders who were popular and influential but never attained power to lead their countries. These include Etienne Tshisekedi, ...
Kabila, who ruled the DRC for nearly two decades until 2019, was sentenced to death in absentia for ‘treason’ by a military court last month. Former President of the Democratic Republic of Congo ...
Former President of the Democratic Republic of Congo Joseph Kabila greets traditional leaders after a meeting at one of his residences in Goma on May 30, 2025. [AFP] Former president Joseph Kabila ...
His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.
One could say DR Congo has carried a curse for the 65 years since it gained independence. It is the curse of Patrice Lumumba, the charismatic, dynamic first prime minister of the vast country, whom ...
It was the perfect bookend to the first one, which was the greatest sporting event in world history. And, for pure tenacity, this one was even better. Oct. 1, 1975 — 50 years since Joe Frazier met ...
KINSHASA - A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday sentenced ex-president Joseph Kabila to death in absentia for "treason". Kabila, 54, who was neither present nor represented ...
A disturbing video clip has resurfaced online and gone viral. In it, Congolese independence hero and first Prime Minister Patrice Émery Lumumba is shown in his final moments in January 1961, stumbling ...
KINSHASA: A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tue­sday sentenced ex-president Joseph Kabila to death in absentia for “treason”. Kabila, 54, who was neither present nor represented ...