The region was dominated by Bantu-speaking tribes, who built trade links leading into the Congo River basin. Congo-Brazzaville was formerly part of the French colony of Equatorial Africa. Upon independence in 1960, the former colony of French Congo became the Republic of the Congo. The People's Republic of the Congo was a Marxist–Leninist one-party state from 1970 to 1991. Multi-party elections have been held since 1992, although a democratically elected government was ousted in the 1997 Republic of the Congo Civil War and President Denis Sassou Nguesso has ruled for 26 of the past 36 years.
Photo taken on March 30, 2023 shows a checkpoint of Bunagana, a city in the eastern DemocraticRepublic of the Congo...Ugandan soliders are seen in Bunagana, a city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, on March 30, 2023 ... Photo taken on March 30, 2023 shows a checkpoint of Bunagana, a city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Backers of a law that would bar the DemocraticRepublic of Congo’s only Jewish politician from becoming president are trying again to get it passed, in a move decried by Jewish leaders abroad ... A Congolese boy walks past a wall in Beni, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, April 1, 2019.
Raphael Ndabagha, a refugee from the DemocraticRepublic of the Congo, disputes that. Ndabagha lived outside the Dzaleka camp before returning ahead of the February 1 deadline ... Dzaleka is home to refugees and asylum-seekers from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Somalia ... ....
COPENHAGEN. Pirates who seized a Danish oil tanker off Congo last week have kidnapped six crew and abandoned ship, the French navy said on Friday ... The 135-metre-long Monjasa Reformer “experienced an emergency situation” on March 25 around 260 kilometres west of Port Pointe-Noire in the Republic of Congo when it was “sitting idle”, Monjasa said ... .
The crew said "six of its members were abducted by pirates.” The statement did not disclose the number of people found. The Liberian-flagged oil and chemical tanker, with 16 crew members, was boarded Saturday by five armed persons 225 kilometers (140 miles) west of Port Pointe-Noire in the Republic of Congo, said its owner ... .
He stopped to talk to journalists after being discharged from Rome’s Gemelli hospital on Saturday morning...It’s ugly, eh!’” ... Last year, he canceled a trip to DemocraticRepublic of Congo and South Sudan after doctors said he might also have to miss a later trip to Canada unless he agreed to have 20 more days of therapy and rest for his knee ... ....
He once said. \u201cwomen are made for loving not hitting\u201d. He would have to eat crow if he would be around ... Here\u2019s a look at some of them ... This was the technique he employed to beat another boxing legend George Foreman in the famous 1974 \u2018Rumble in the Jungle\u2019 bout at Kinshasa, DemocraticRepublic of the Congo (then Zaire) ... .
GlobalForecast as of 12.00 GMT Saturday, April 1, 2023 ...Kinshasa, DemocraticRepublic of the Congo;Mostly cloudy;31;23;Clouds and sun;33;23;SSW;10;65%;42%;12 ... Prague, Czech Republic;A couple of showers;12;5;A couple of showers;7;-2;N;21;79%;97%;1 ... Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic;An afternoon shower;32;20;A morning shower;31;21;NE;14;63%;57%;11 ... St.