On October 30, 2025 the world marked the 51st anniversary of “Rumble in the Jungle”, one of the most talked about ring battles in the history of boxing pitting then world heavyweight boxing champion ...
Internally displaced civilians from the camps in Munigi and Kibati, carry their belongings as they flee following the fight between M23 rebels and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the ...
The Democratic Republic of Congo are one of the genuine sleeping giants of world football, and as Nigeria may well learn to ...
Mobutu Sese Seko ruled the Democratic Republic of Congo for more than three decades as a dictator who plundered the country's ...
In 1974, the Congo’s grand dictator completed his “Africanisation” of the Congo by renaming it Zaire. He discarded his birth name and crowned himself Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga — “the ...
The United States military has reportedly developed a range of contingency plans for potential military action in Nigeria, following a directive from U.S. Presi ...
Op-ed: The minerals of Lubumbashi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo's second-largest city, electrified the world, created ...
A coalition of jihadist groups affiliated with al-Qaida have laid siege to landlocked Mali’s capital. For over a month, they have attacked convoys supplying ...
For one thing, he was a ruthless military general who had no qualms about resorting to violence to maintain order and stability throughout his 32-year rule in this country.
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Shamelessness as virtue

Last Monday, we all woke up to the not-so-shocking news of Paul Biya’s eighth-term victory at age 92. I chuckled because this was not just a political event. It is a psycho-social indictment. It ...
Alex Neil got the better of his old Stoke City side for Millwall to leapfrog the Potters among the early Championship pace setters. Thierno Ballo set up two first-half goals; the first for Femi Azeez ...