After six weeks as Premier of the Congo, Moise Tshombe was hanging on by the skin of his big white teeth. Only the U.S. seemed interested in helping him hang on. It gave him a few renovated B-26s to ...

Tabu Ley, one of the stars of 'Congo Funk!', and his band African Fiesta National in 1970 From the south bank’s perspective, the two-way musical trade between each country was complicated in 1971 when ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A bridge across Africa’s mighty Congo River, the first to link the capital cities of Kinshasa and Brazzaville, is planned according to an agreement signed in Johannesburg Thursday.

MORE THAN a decade ago the Republic of Congo, an oil-producing country of 6m people in central Africa, wanted to improve its decrepit health-care infrastructure. It paid €491m (then worth $658m) to a ...