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Lifestyle 5 years ago

Congolese model challenges China's love for 'tall, light and skinny'

While the Black Lives Matter movement fuels debate and change in the fashion worlds of the United States and parts of Europe, industry figures say Asia's beauty and body expectations remain dominated by an ideal that is pale, thin, and unrepresentative of the region.

Art & Culture 5 years ago

Robbery or social justice? French court fines activist who pinches colonial relics

A French court convicted Congolese activist Mwazulu Diyabanza of aggravated robbery and fined him 1,000 euros ($1,176) after he snatched a 19th century central African funerary post from a Paris museum in June.

Art & Culture 5 years ago

Seizing art: One African man's protest against colonial 'pillagers'

A Congolese who has lived in France for 20 years, Mwazulu Diyabanza belongs to a pan-African movement that is pressing France to return those artifacts and make reparations for acts of slavery.

World 5 years ago

Foreign minister offers condolences for Indonesian soldier killed in attack on MONUSCO

The foreign minister said the UN Security Council had lambasted the attack.

World 5 years ago

Congo records third new Ebola case from same infection chain: WHO

The Democratic Republic of Congo recorded a third new Ebola case on Monday, a seven-year-old girl who had started showing symptoms after visiting the same health center as the two previous cases, the World Health Organization said on Monday.

World 6 years ago

In the shadow of Ebola and COVID-19, measles rips through Congo

Thousands dead from measles in vast Central African nation.

Health 6 years ago

Ebola 'no longer incurable' as Congo trial finds drugs boost survival

Scientists are a step closer to being able to cure the deadly Ebola haemorrhagic fever after two experimental drugs showed survival rates of as much as 90% in a clinical trial in Congo.

SE Asia 6 years ago

Singapore makes its biggest ever illegal ivory seizure

The illegal cargo, discovered Monday in a container from the Democratic Republic of the Congo being shipped to Vietnam via Singapore, also included a huge stash of pangolin scales -- the third such seizure in as many months.

SE Asia 7 years ago

Vietnam seizes 9 tons of suspected ivory from Congo

Though it is illegal to buy and sell ivory in communist Vietnam, lax law enforcement has allowed the illicit trade to flourish on the black market.

People 7 years ago

Mukwege: Congolese 'Doctor Miracle' heals sexual atrocity victims

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, they call him "Doctor Miracle" for his surgical skill and dedication in helping women overcome the injuries and trauma of sexual abuse and rape.

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