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Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentAmid the health crisis, Cannes’s virtual Marché du Film has rejigged Cannes Docs as a digital-only event giving feature documentary film professionals access to tailored program of events on a dedicated platform. Congolese filmmaker Dieudo Hamadi will be the special guest of the 5th edition of Doc Day.

Ben Affleck has a very private Instagram account.

Before director of urban music Tuma Basa made hip-hop one of the hottest genres in the world, he grew up in Congo, Zimbabwe — and Iowa. Now he’s using his dual cultural background to do the same for African music.

Leonardo DiCaprio is continuing his support of Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Earth Alliance — a joint venture co-founded by the Oscar-winning actor with Emerson Collective and Global Wildlife Conservation — is partnering with the European Commission to launch the Virunga Fund to help support the park, kicking off with $2 million in seed funding.

By Marc Malkin

The ex-wife of a supposedly dead soccer player is under investigation for insurance fraud after it was discovered that the Congolese athlete was alive and well in Germany.

Former youth soccer star Hiannick Kamba was believed to have died in a car accident in his native country of Congo back in 2016. However, in a strange turn of events, Kamba has been found alive, four years later.

Former youth soccer star Hiannick Kamba was believed to have died in a car accident in his native country of Congo back in 2016. However, in a strange turn of events, Kamba has been found alive, four years later.

A soccer player who supposedly died four years ago is making headlines this week—because he's reportedly alive.  Hiannick Kamba has returned to Germany after being reported to have died in an alleged car crash in his native Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2016, People reported.  "Mr. Kamba has recently returned to Germany," German prosecutor Anette Milk confirmed to the magazine.

Former soccer player Hiannick Kamba is alive after being presumed dead in a car accident in January 2016.

Women and children burnt to death, rape as a weapon of war, kids as young as five enslaved or accused of being witches and murdered with machetes.

Concern over the deaths of 213 people in China have led to comparisons with the ebola viral infection which spread rapidly through Africa.

New York-based sales agent Cargo Film & Releasing has snapped up U.S. rights to feature documentary “Once Upon a Time in Venezuela” ahead of its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.