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Congo-Brazzaville

January 2024

  • Prince Harry with African Parks workers and an elephant

    Charity with Prince Harry as director investigating rape and torture claims

    African Parks examines alleged atrocities against Indigenous people by its Congo Republic guards after ‘decade of alerts’ from Survival International

February 2023

  • Jean-Pierre Léaud in The Lion Has Seven Heads.

    The Lion Has Seven Heads review – a fierce revolutionary leftist bad dream from 1970

    With its white-robed preacher striding through Congo-Brazzaville, this denunciation of imperialism from Brazilian director Glauber Rocha is very much of its time

December 2022

  • The world’s first photo of a Bouvier’s red colobus monkey,

    Lost and found
    Lost and found: how a jungle trek led to first photo of fearless, fluffy-cheeked monkey

    Bouvier’s red colobus monkey was ‘rediscovered’ after an expedition up river and through swamps in the Republic of the Congo

November 2022

  • Dr Corneille Ewango leading an expedition into the peatlands.

    ‘Carbon timebomb’: climate crisis threatens to destroy Congo peatlands

    Vast carbon store may be close to point where it could flip from absorbing CO2 to releasing it, research shows

July 2022

  • Emmanuel Macron smiles as he walks with a gesturing Paul Biya

    Opinion
    Françafrique is back: Macron’s visit to Cameroon signals Colonisation 2.0

    Vava Tampa
    The French president sees himself as a break from old colonial ways. But his visit to the despot Paul Biya tells a different story

June 2022

  • A group of girls outside the Malkohi refugee camp in Jimeta, Nigeria.

    Growing numbers of young Africans want to move abroad, survey suggests

    Covid, climate, stability and violence contributing to young people feeling pessimistic about future, survey of 15 countries suggests

December 2021

  • Laure, a midwife at Ndu health facility in Congo-Brazzaville, holds one of Ester’s baby twins delivered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

    Forgotten human rights crises 2021
    ‘They lost almost everything’: photographing the terror and joy of refugees in DRC

  • Africa Prize 2021 nominees (left to right): Virtue Oboro from Nigeria, Divin Kouebatouka from the Republic of the Congo and Norah Magero from Kenya

    Engineering the future: meet the Africa prize shortlist innovators

October 2021

  • The Bana OK band plays a Congolese rumba tune at La Septante club in the Kasa-Vubu quarter in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.

    ‘It is our identity’: two Congos seek Unesco listing for rumba

    Joint bid aims to add musical style that inspired independence to list of intangible cultural heritage

June 2021

  • A giant stingray fish in the Mekong River near the Cambodian and Vietnam border.

    The age of extinction
    ‘Gamechanging’ £10m environmental DNA project to map life in world’s rivers

    eBioAtlas programme aims to identify fish, birds, amphibians and land animals in freshwater systems from the Ganges to the Mekong

April 2021

  • A campaign balloon with a picture of Republic of Congo president, Denis Sassou-Nguesso, in the run-up to the March 2021 election

    Opinion
    Sassou rules like an emperor while Congolese die from extreme poverty

    Vava Tampa
    The world has turned a blind eye to Denis Sassou Nguesso’s controversial re-election, which will extend his iron-fisted reign to more than 40 years

March 2021

  • Guy Brice Parfait Kolelas.

    Congolese presidential candidate dies from Covid on election day

    Guy Brice Parfait Kolelas, who urged voters to ‘fight for change’, died as he was being flown to France for treatment

November 2020

  • Ecoguards burn down an illegal poachers’ camp, Republic of the Congo

    ‘Large-scale human rights violations’ taint Congo national park project

    Conservation groups proposing a protected area in the river basin accused of ignoring the interests of the Baka people

August 2020

  • Nkodia Aurelie.

    Congolese dandies: Meet the stylish men and women of Brazzaville – in pictures

    Since the 1920s, the sapeurs of the Congo have been making sartorial statements on the streets of Kinshasa and Brazzaville. Tariq Zaidi shot them in their home communities

February 2020

  • Tropical Peatland in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    The age of extinction
    Plan to drain Congo peat bog for oil could release vast amount of carbon

  • Ecoguards from Cameroon and Gabon patrol Messok Dja, looking for poachers

    The age of extinction
    Armed ecoguards funded by WWF 'beat up Congo tribespeople'

November 2019

  • ‘The guide who had the gun was 100m away’ … polar bears in Seven Worlds, One Planet.

    'I was peeing and a polar bear popped up!' Secrets of Seven Worlds, One Planet

    Shooting poachers, circling polar bears, flailing four-tonne seals, singing rhinos and the world’s roughest sea … the team behind Attenborough’s latest extravaganza relive their thrills and spills

September 2019

  • Shop murals in Brazzaville

    No language barrier: Brazzaville's illustrated shop facades – in pictures

    Shops in the Republic of the Congo’s capital use colourful depictions of the goods they sell to get around the lack of a common tongue

August 2019

  • Denis Christel Sassou-Nguesso

    Son of Congo-Brazzaville president accused of siphoning off $50m

    Denis Christel Sassou-Nguesso allegedly used money-laundering scheme spanning six European countries

March 2019

  • Haute-Savoie

    French ex-spy suspected of Congo-Brazzaville plot shot dead in Alps

    Daniel Forestier had been investigated over alleged plot to assassinate opposition figure
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