Baghdad falls to the Mongols as the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed and tens of thousands are slaughtered. 1542: Catherine ...

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The burden that Patrice Lumumba, prime minister of the Republic of the Congo, assumed was an awesome one. On his young, slim ...

Johan Grimonprez uses archival footage of the period to expose the CIA-backed assassination of Congo leader Patrice Lumumba ...

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The Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in conflict for years. As fresh fighting surges in the east, the roots of ...

The 2025 crop of Oscar nominated doc features all tackle urgent and timely international stories that resonate in today's ...

The United Nations has 14,000 of its blue helmet soldiers in the Kivu region, and this past December, 14 blue helmets were killed. The countries that make up the Southern African Development Community ...

Lubumbashi is little known, but its minerals electrified the world, created atom bombs and are key to greener energy, the ...