#Congonews

[acemattz-wiki-blog]

acemattz : “tshanana“ simply means out of nowhere... for those asking calm down people.

[ebola-chan-love]

UPDATE 1-Congo records first Ebola case in major eastern city of Butembo - Reuters Africa

UPDATE 1-Congo records first Ebola case in major eastern city of Butembo Reuters Africa (Adds details, background). GOMA, Congo, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Congo has recorded its first case of Ebola in the eastern trading hub of Butembo, a city of close to a million with strong trade links to neighbouring Uganda, the health ministry said on ... and more »

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[kongowetu]

On Friday 7th and Sunday 9th of February, the Congolese opposition leader Vital Kamerhe and a delegation of his party tried to take a plane from Kinshasa to Goma, to complete a tour through eastern Congo. The authoritiesprevented his departure twice. There was also a strange indictment against him for an old case of defamation brought by MP Wivine Moleka. It’s possible that Kamerhe will now face a trial and up to 3 years imprisonment. Is Kabila’s former right hand man now becoming public enemy numbervi one?

[silencenoire]

Study finds that after decades of brutality half of eastern DRC's adults suffer post-traumatic disorder and a fifth thought of suicide

[acemattz-wiki-blog]

For this life I cannot change. Hidden hills. Deep off in the main.

[kongowetu]

WASHINGTON — The growing demand for new technologies, questionable supply lines and production in unfriendly or dangerous countries are putting NATO and allied militaries at risk of losing access to critical

• Cobalt. Primarily mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), cobalt is used in alloys with other metals to make gas turbines and jet engines. The DRC has been troubled by civil war and rebellion since it gained independence from Belgium in the early 1960s. At least 5.4 million people have died there since 1998, many because of preventable diseases, according to a report by the International Rescue Committee.

• Tantalum. A rare, hard, blue-gray metal that is used in jet engines, nuclear weapons and missile parts. Its non-military uses include electronics as well as medical equipment and implants. The Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the world's largest sources of tantalum.

• Tungsten. The hard metal is often used in missiles and ammunition, while its non-military uses include fluorescent lighting and electronics. The world's main tungsten producers include China, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Russia.

[kongowetu]

Rwanda cannot be considered the darling of Africa until illegal murders and financed rebellions in neighboring countries are stopped. If nothing is done, then the next Rwandan Civil War will be on the hands of those that supported this behavior.

[kongowetu]

WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Two U.S. judges on Tuesdayraised concerns about a new rule that forces certainmanufacturers to disclose if their products contain mineralsfrom a war-torn part of Africa,

[kongowetu]

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congo's army fought gun battles on Tuesday with a separatist militia just 30 km (19 miles) from Lubumbashi, capital of the copper-rich Katanga province, the provincial governor told Reuters.

[kongowetu]

The murder of former Rwanda spy chief Patrick Karegaya has again prompted serious questions about the true nature of Rwandan President Paul Kagame.

[kongowetu]

Idjwi - For many of the world's 7 billion people, it would be hard to imagine a world without the Internet. In just a couple of decades, our lives have become so intertwined with the World Wide Web that it's difficult to remember a time when it wasn't part of our lives. For the youngest among us, the world simply hasn't existed without it.

But for the residents of Idjwi Island - a tiny place located on Africa's Lake Kivu right between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda - it is not the absence of the Internet that has been hard to imagine, it is the presence of it.

Until last August.