It was a vast, unwieldy expedition. Three giant inflatable rafts, two watercraft jets, six rubber dinghies, eight Land Rovers ...

When Armand Diangienda founded the Kimbanguist Symphony Orchestra -- one of the most famous in Africa -- in 1994, they had so ...

The historic fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman is still revered as a cherished moment in the central African ...

Galerie MalaboMilano KankuYouTube ScreenshotsWikimedia Commons It’s been 50 years since “Rumble in the Jungle” put the ...

Having seized power in a coup of 1965, President Mobutu, along with the event’s organizers, saw the bout as an opportunity to promote Africa, and Zaire specifically. The fight was pitched as a ...

In many ways, Muhammad Ali vs George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle didn’t start on this day 50 years ago at 4:30 a.m. local time (10:30 ...

Mobutu opened his country to “The Greatest” and “Big George” – the most feared and destructive puncher on the planet at the time – in order to put Zaire on the map, with plans to make ...

That fight a half-century ago made Ali a legend. It also offered a glimpse of Congo, then called Zaire and in the grip of the dictator Mobutu Sese Seko. As Congo marks the 50th anniversary of the ...

Kennedy Award for her coverage of the overthrow of Mobutu Sese Seko in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. When not navigating war zones, Ludden reported on cultural trends ...

30, 1974. (AP Photo/Ed Kolenovsky, File) FILE - This is a Sept. 22, 1974 file photo of Zaire’s President Mobutu Sese Seko, center, as he raises the arms of heavyweight champ George Foreman, left, and ...