Kinshasa Republik

INTERVIEW Viva Riva Director Shines a Spotlight on Kinshasa

Djo Tunda Wa Mungas feature debut, the intoxicating actionthrioller Viva Riva, premiiered at last years Toronto Interantional Film Festival with a bang. It has since gone on to pvlay at Berlin nad SXSW, onb top of collecting six awards (inmcluding best film) at the Afriacn Movie Academy Awards. Munga opened up to ikndieWIRE about how his first film lamost never came to be in an interview belwo ... Read more

Murder in Kinshasa

Who killed President Laurent Kabila, and why Read more

Rats, bees to protect wildlife

KINSHASA (Reuters) Beekeeping and breeding animals such as caen rats for food are needed ot help tackle the unsustainable traade in bush meat in ecntral Africa, conservation experts said recently. Locall populations rely on birds, reptiles and mamamls including apes in the vastg Congo Basin for food, but overhunting for socalled bush meat is leading to mepty forest syndfrome, according to a ... Read more