Sporting only the most stylish designer labels, wearing only meticulously matched colors, the Congo's dandies are the very embodiment of sartorial elegance.
As Brazilian authorities work to "pacify" Brazil's slums ahead of two global sporting events, police in Rio de Janeiro captured one of the city's most notorious drug traffickers.
World health agencies plan to launch a massive polio vaccination in three West African nations, following a fast-moving and especially virulent outbreak that has already killed 97 people.
Scores of people in the Republic of Congo have died in a polio outbreak, and health providers are gearing up to thwart the flare-up, the United Nations' health agency said Wednesday.
Tchicaya Missamou was a child soldier in the Republic of Congo but fought to escape that life and became a U.S. Marine.
Quiet, remote and beautiful villages have become the scene for unspeakable horror as women are raped as a weapon in war.
There were no survivors with wreckage found Monday in remote African terrain of a missing aircraft carrying 11 people, an Australian mining company said.
Australian mining magnate Ken Talbot is among nine passengers in a plane reported missing after it took off from Cameroon en route to the Republic of the Congo, his company said Sunday.
A U.N. official says hundreds of civilians were killed by a rebel group in the Republic of Congo in December.
Letters and e-mails expressing the anger, sadness and disbelief felt by the victims of convicted swindler Bernard Madoff were made public Friday in a Manhattan court.
A U.N. report says hunger is on the rise globally and blames higher food prices.
Researchers find that the population of a rare gorilla is larger than thought, CNN's Rusty Dornin reports.
An estimated 125,000 Western lowland gorillas are living in a swamp in equatorial Africa, researchers reported Tuesday, double the number of the endangered primates thought to survive worldwide.
Conservationists find 125,000 undiscovered western lowland gorillas in Africa, suggesting the species is safe
Wildlife researchers said Tuesday that they've discovered
125,000 western lowland gorillas deep in the forests of the Republic of
Congo, calling it a major increase in the animal's estimated
population
Here are some facts on the U.N. Security Council from its Web site:
Fortune: Vulture warsupdated: Tue Jun 20 2006 14:07:00
DENIS SASSOU-NGUESSO, President of the Republic of Congo, was back in New York City in early June, his first visit since last September, when his $82,000 Palace Hotel bill made headlines in this ma...
Fortune: The vulture warsupdated: Fri Jun 09 2006 17:21:00
Denis Sassou-Nguesso, President of the Republic of Congo, was back in New York City in early June, his first visit since last September, when his $82,000 Palace Hotel bill made headlines in this magazine and elsewhere.
His country may be war-torn, bankrupt, and mired in poverty, but that didn't stop Republic of the Congo President Denis Sassou-Nguesso, newly elected African Union chairman, from racking up an $81,...
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