An African nation emerging from decades of conflict and corruption holds the key to greening the global economy, according to mining magnate Robert Friedland. (Bloomberg) -- An African nation emerging ...

Arcadia resident Howard Jonathan Hong has paid about $26,000 for three paintings by the late Congo the chimpanzee, a former resident of the London Zoo who painted some 400 works during the late 1950s.

In the Belgian Congo last week massed tom-tom drummers practiced a welcome tattoo. Prosperous Negro shopkeepers climbed up wooden ladders and draped the Congolese flag (a golden star on a blue field) ...