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Barbara Kanam

Connu du public sous le nom de Barbara Kanam la diva Africaine, cette artiste musicienne Congolaise n'est plus à présenter, aux différents mélomanes de la musique Congolaise et Africaine.

La RDC compatit au malheur qui frappe Haïti et y envoie une aide de deux millions cinq cent mille dollars US
 
Le grand sinistre causé par le séisme qui vient de secouer Haïti ne laisse pas indifférent la RDC souvent victime de pareilles catastrophes naturelles ; le gouvernement compatit aux malheurs que vit ce pays des Caraïbes et a décidé d’y envoyer une aide de 2.500.000 dollars US
 
“End Resource War”, Urge Congolese Activists

September 22, 2009 -- One hundred years ago, a global outrage surrounding the death of an estimated ten million Congolese resulted in the end the rule of King Leopold II of Belgium over the Congo. Ordinary people around the world from all walks of life stood at the side of the Congolese and demanded the end of the first recorded Congolese holocaust. A century later, the world finds itself facing the same issue where the Congolese people are subjected to unimaginable suffering.

 
New Era in US –DRC Relationships? New Era in US –DRC Relationships?  
 

Something is brewing in Washington DC… A late Spring US Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing, a Senate letter addressing key resolutions to the State Department, and a follow up by Madam Secretary’s trip to DRC; all of the above helped make a clear message to Congolese officials.

 
Lost in Translation
By Franklin Katunda
CheapOair.com
Washington DC -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was asked a very central question on US economic interests in Central Africa at a forum in Kinshasa, DR Congo. Unfortunately, an inquiry most Congolese have called insightful in regards to the US-Congo relations got “lost in translation”. Not only, had it lost its significance in the media coverage, but worst, given their slacking pleasure not to look into news tips and details, US media networks condensed it into another Clinton’s “saut d’humeur” sound bite.
    
Going past Ghana: What Obama can do in Congo
The U.S. must look beyond stable, democratic Africa to the nations torn by poverty, war and corruption. In Congo, that means a special envoy, more aid and help with a deal with China.

By Helen Winternitz LA Times Opinion
     

   

 
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 Congo's Tin Soldiers - Democratic Republic of Congo
 
The West's demand for Cassiterite is fuelling the killings in Congo. Militias rely on slave labor to extract the ore, forcing locals to work in sub-human conditions.
 We will crush you..."The World Deadliest War"
 NY Times Getting Closer to the Truth on the Resource War in the Congo‏
 
Congo-Kinshasa: Erasing Congo At the Stroke of a Pen
Jacques Depelchin 23 April 2009
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President 'ordered murder' of Congo leader
Forty years after the murder of the Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba, evidence has emerged in Washington that President Dwight Eisenhower directly ordered the CIA to "eliminate" him.
 
 

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