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Thursday 03 December 2009
Both sides of Congo war get funds from sale of minerals used in mobile phones.
A Nevada-based company’s purchase of minerals looted from eastern Congo is helping to finance a decade-long war that has claimed the lives of millions of civilians, an unpublished United Nations report claims. read more »
An IRIN Film: « Obligés de fuir » (in French) can be seen at the IRIN website: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=85858
Réveil-FM, lundi 17 août 2009 à 15:27 :: radio :: #480 :: rss.
Edras Kambale Bahekwa, le ministère de la Culture et des Arts, est à la recherche de financements pour réhabiliter les statues héritées de la colonisation belge qui ornaient autrefois Kinshasa, la capitale de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC), dont celles des rois Léopold II et Albert 1er ainsi que de l'explorateur Henry Morton Stanley. read more »
Adam Hochschild: New York Review of Books: Volume 56, Number 13 · August 13, 2009. As if eastern Congo had not already suffered enough, seven years ago Nature dealt it a stunning blow. The volcano whose blue-green bulk looms above the dusty, lakeside city of Goma, Mount Nyiragongo, erupted, sending a smoking river of lava several hundred yards wide through the center of town and sizzling into the waters of Lake Kivu. More than 10,000 homes were engulfed. Parts of the city, which is packed with displaced people, are still covered by a layer of purplish rock up to twelve feet thick. read more »
Howard W. French: The New York Review of Books, Volume 56, Number 14 · September 24, 2009
Although it has been strangely ignored in the Western press, one of the most destructive wars in modern history has been going on in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa's third-largest country. read more »
1. En fin de compte le débat porte sur les modèles conceptuels pour réussir la réconciliation avec vérité. L’espoir est que cette réussite ouvre la voie à la solution durable de la crise congolaise. read more »
Following is a talk given in French by Ernest Wamba dia Wamba on January 12, 2009, at a ceremony commemorating the 5th anniversary of the Mbongi a Nsi. An English translation is attached.
1. L’histoire qui a commencé avec la rencontre inaugurale avec les Européens, au 15ème siècle, continue toujours sa trajectoire : de la traite négrière aux formes modernes de servitude, se focalisant sur la réduction des habitants à n’être que de la main d’œuvre la moins chère possible ou simple objet de l’humanitarisme—fondé sur la charité—mais pas vraiment une partie intégrale de l’humanité avec laquelle avoir une relation égalitaire de solidarité. read more »
Mandisi Majavu is with the Africa Project for Participatory Society. On December 16, 2008, he conducted the following interview by email with Ernest Wamba dia Wamba, who directs the Ota Benga Alliance's sister organization in Kinshasa, the Ota Benga Center for Human Dignity. read more »
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