How the CIA used jazz greats as cover for a 1961 coup in Africa
Johan Grimonprez uses archival footage of the period to expose the CIA-backed assassination of Congo leader Patrice Lumumba ...
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Dozens of runaway Congo soldiers face trial on violence charges
Congo's government says it is a Rwandan proxy, which the rebel group and Rwanda deny. In an attempt to diffuse ... troops and military equipment to Democratic Republic of Congo in recent days ...
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Dozens of runaway Congo soldiers face trial on violence charges
gang rape and sexual slavery in the wake of a major M23 advance in late January that lead to the capture of east Democratic Republic of Congo's largest city of Goma. M23 fighters, Congolese ...
The Hollywood Reporter6d
‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’ Director: Our World’s Problems Go Well Beyond Trump and the Republicans
By Steven Zeitchik Senior Editor, Awards The Oscar-nominated doc Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat is layered ... the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo — while also ...
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The 40 Coolest Sneakers of the 1990s
Sneakers were rapidly becoming more fashionable through the decades and by the time the 1990s rolled around, the floodgates ...
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How jazz played out over Congo’s chaotic coup
This extraordinary story is told in a new documentary, 'Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat', which juxtaposes jazz ... While the current situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (or DRC, as it is now ...
New Statesman4d
South Korea’s chaos politics
‘Tragically, Congo’s horror remains unchanged. Foreigners full of lust, rebel groups, and a corrupt government have and are ...