BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo – Families desperately crowded outside morgues on Wednesday while others tried to get past the police tape blocking access to the…

A year before Columbus set sail for America, an African king was baptized and converted his kingdom into a Catholic nation that lasted nearly 370 years. King Nzinga a Nkuwu, ruler of Kongo, located in what is now northern Angola, decided to become a Christian not long after Portuguese mariners reached his shores in 1483. […]

While the brutal epidemic of  women raped in the Congo has drawn much outrage in the media, lesser known incidents of men being raped by other men in the region and around the world are now coming to light, and apparently, in some places these occurrences are fairly common. Arab news organization, Al-Jazeera, recently reported […]