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Bikes, buses and Black Sabbath on India's tour of England
Ozzy Osbourne of Black Sabbath is the most famous Brummie. First inductee on the Birmingham Walk of Stars on Broad Street in ...
As Congo moves toward peace, US aid vanishes
As the Senate prepares to take up the rescissions package, lawmakers should remember: Peacekeeping isn’t charity, it’s ...
KoBold Inks Congo Exploration Deal to Grow US Mineral Access
KoBold Metals and the Democratic Republic of Congo signed a mineral exploration pact, deepening the company’s activities in ...
Special Forces Veterans Lead US Bid to Buy Congo Cobalt Miner
A US consortium involving ex-special forces personnel is seeking to acquire Chemaf Resources Ltd., a copper and cobalt producer that has become a symbol of the growing competition for mineral deals ...
The Root4d
All The Wars in Africa You Never Hear About, But Should Know
In the north of Mozambique, Al-Shabaab have waged a brutal insurgency since 2017, leading to beheadings, rapes, and burned villages, even as recent as reports dated 2024. The fight over liquified ...
The Dandy — Peter Andersson’s sumptuous social history of fashionable men
The Swedish historian catalogues two centuries of outlandish looks and behaviour across working-class subcultures ...
Inside the Congolese mine vital to mobile phones, as rebels give BBC rare access
M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo recently allowed the BBC to visit a huge mining site under their control which is vital to the production of the world's mobile phones - and over its ...