Tag: Congo
Nobel laureate presidential candidate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The election taking place on 20 December 2023 is the first election Denis Mukwege is running for. “I’m not going to wait until 2028. I’m not doing it for interest…
Oligui Nguema visits Congo to relaunch relations with Brazzaville
The president of the Gabonese transition is expected this Sunday in Congo-Brazzaville. General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema must be received by President Denis Sassou-Nguesso in his stronghold in Oyo. This…
Many dead in landslides in Congo
Heavy downpours in Mongala Province have caused the landslide, and the victims all lived in houses on a hillside on the banks of the Congo River, near the provincial capital,…
MMA: Ange Loosa, the fighter who “proudly carries Switzerland and Congo on his back” at the UFC
Swiss fighter of Congolese origin Ange Loosa won the victory after a fierce fight against Irishman Rhys McKee at UFC Paris on Saturday September 2. He now aims to climb…
Djo Ngeleka (Democratic Republic of Congo): “The Lake”
It’s morning, it looks like six o’clock, a crowd is claiming that a body has fallen into a lake, or what everyone has decided to call “lake” because there is…
Didi B in concert at the Félix Eboué stadium, in Congo Brazzaville on August 13
On this day, the gold sequence will be dedicated to artists who named one of their songs Aisha: Africando, Cheb Khaled and Singuila. A song title reused by the Ivorian…
In Congo, Fespam is back in Brazzaville after eight years of absence
Due to an economic crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic, Congo-Brazzaville has not organized the Pan-African Music Festival (Fespam) since 2015. The event is therefore back this year for its eleventh…
Faustin Linyekula and Mamu Tshi, the Congo in the body
The choreographer and dancer Faustin Linyekula and the krumper Mamu Tshi present their shows on the stage of the Théâtre Chaillot in Paris. Both left for Congo in 2022 in…
Alphonse Chardin N’Kala, the novel of a chaotic and musical Congo
In his latest novel “At the twilight of dreams”, Alphonse Chardin N’Kala plunges us into the city of Mouléléké. An imaginary city that could look like Brazzaville, capital of Congo.…
Between Belgium and Congo, Lisette Lombé
She writes like the numbers that follow one another, in rhythm and urgency, she writes for the living a language that is addressed to the last ranks. She, Lisette Lombé,…