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Inside the magic and chaos of the Africa Cup of Nations

While Senegal’s victory in the chaotic final has made the headlines, we look at five other big takeaways from the tournament – from the strong diaspora representation to the floor-filling tunes

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Algeria 0-2 Nigeria: Africa Cup of Nations 2025 quarter-final – as it happened

Minute-by-minute report: Victor Osimhen struck in the second half to spark Nigeria’s quarter-final victory over Algeria

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‘Lumumba everlasting’: Belgium marks Congo’s slain leader’s 100th birthday with exhibition – and possible trial

Surprise move towards trial of veteran diplomat over Patrice Lumumba’s 1961 assassination coincides with show seeking to widen focus on his life and fight

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65 years on, Belgium edges closer to trial over Lumumba’s assassination

Sixty-five years after the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba, a key figure in the Congolese independence movement, the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office hopes that a trial may finally take place – possibly in 2026 – as part of the investigation into “war crimes” opened in Belgium, the former colonial power.

Radio France Internationale

From 1960 to present day, 11 dates that explain the conflict in the DRC

Since gaining independence from Belgium in 1960, the Democratic Republic of Congo has seen recurrent armed conflict, political tensions, regional power struggles and battles over its natural resources. RFI takes a look at the pivotal moments in the country's history and their connections with today's events.

Radio France Internationale

DRC: history is repeating itself in Lubumbashi as the world scrambles for minerals to go green

Lubumbashi is a city in the mineral-rich Katanga region in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

The Conversation

‘Symbol of resistance’: Lumumba, the Congolese hero killed before his prime

Many are still haunted by the aborted legacy of DR Congo’s first prime minister, who was murdered on January 17, 1961.

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The Long Wave: Andrée Blouin, the unsung heroine of African independence

Politicised by her child’s death, Blouin traded ideas with Lumumba and Nkrumah in the fight for freedom. Plus, Detroit’s Black-led tech boom

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‘I cried, I cried. I had no one’: the brutal child kidnappings that shamed Belgian Congo

Over 70 years ago, thousands of mixed-race boys and girls were torn from their mothers by order of the state. This week five survivors hope a court will censure Belgium for crimes against humanity

The Guardian - UK

Congolese police arrest 6 suspects over break-in into mausoleum of late independence hero Lumumba

Congolese police have arrested six people over a break-in and vandalism earlier this week at the mausoleum of the country’s assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba in Congo’s capital, Kinshasa

The Independent UK

Congo says mausoleum holding independence hero Lumumba's gold-capped tooth is vandalized

Congo’s government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba has been vandalized

The Independent UK

Patrice Lumumba Mausoleum Vandalized, Tooth Possibly Stolen

Vandalism of Patrice Lumumba's mausoleum in Congo sparks outrage and renews calls for justice in honoring the revered nationalist leader's memory.

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Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat review – superb study of how jazz got caught between the cold war and the CIA

Johan Grimonprez’s fascinating documentary uses the assassination of DRC prime minister Patrice Lumumba to launch a dizzying look into the politics of jazz in the 1950s and 60s

The Guardian - UK

Coups, colonialism and all that jazz: the film that unravels extraordinary cold war truths

Johan Grimonprez’s documentary Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat reveals the curious link between Black Americans’ fight for civil rights and the assassination of Congo’s first democratically elected Black African prime minister

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Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat review – finger-popping theory of the conspiracy to kill Congo’s leader

Johan Grimonprez’s fascinating documentary suggests that the US used jazz legend Louis Armstrong in a ‘cool war’ offensive to assassinate Patrice Lumumba

The Guardian - UK

Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd review – a spy story to rival Restless

A celebrated travel writer is drawn into a labyrinth of secrets and betrayals by MI6, while battling his childhood trauma, in a masterly tale set in the early 60s

The Guardian - UK

Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd review – hugely enjoyable cold war espionage

This cinematic tale of globe-trotting adventure marks the beginning of a new series

Al Jazeera

Conflict-weary DR Congo votes on December 20: A guide to the election

As the mineral-rich DR Congo prepares to vote for a new president this December, opponents are already crying foul.

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Akyaaba Addai-Sebo: the shocking conversation that led him to start UK Black History Month

In the mid-1980s he invited Angela Davis, Winnie Mandela, Jesse Jackson and Ray Charles to talk to communities across the country. Thus began an enormous, ongoing, consciousness-changing event

The Conversation

Will Ukraine be able to win over the Global South in its fight against Russian aggression?

I was running from my home in Kyiv as the Russian army occupied Bucha, Gostomel and Irpin in the early stages of its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

France 24

From Khrushchev’s KGB to Putin: the deep roots of Russian influence in Africa

When Russian President Vladimir Putin develops his network of influence in Africa, he isn’t doing so at random. He is drawing on the rich history of Soviet relations with African countries that dates back to the 1960s and the efforts made by Russian spies during the Cold War to counter…

WEKU

How 'modern-day slavery' in the Congo powers the rechargeable battery economy

Phone and electric car batteries are made with cobalt mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Cobalt Red author Siddharth Kara describes the conditions for workers as a "horror show."

Financial Times

The 60-year, 4,000-mile journey home of Lumumba’s tooth

Decades after his murder, the tooth of the former Congolese leader turned up in Belgium. This is the story of its return

France 24

Belgian court allows secret documents about DR Congo's Lumumba assassination

A Belgian court agrees to admit the findings of a 22-year-old parliamentary commission into its investigation. The court is looking into the 1961 assassination of DR Congo's Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, seen by many as one of the country's founding fathers. Also on the show: the Ebola outbreak in Uganda…

The Conversation

Belgium is reviewing its colonial past in the DRC: it's a sensitive but necessary process

The year 2022 is shaping up to be a critical period for the troubled relationship between Kinshasa and Brussels.

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