A man checks bags of sulfur being loaded onto a train at Impala Terminals, Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of Congo. Emmet Livingstone/NPR hide caption toggle caption Emmet Livingstone/NPR Joe Biden’s first and last trip to Africa as president wrapped up in […]
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People look at a billboard in Kinshasa on Oct. 30, 1974, announcing the fight between U.S. boxers Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. That day, Ali knocked out Foreman in a clash of titans known as the “Rumble in the Jungle,”
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