“Madam
Secretary, every day
that goes by without a
clear and focused plan
means more women
devastated by
unspeakable violence.
” That is a key
sentence that stresses
the urgency of the
matter in DR Congo and
Sudan. It is a phrase
within a letter
addressed (May 21st
, 2009) by three US
Senators to Madam
Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton at the
conclusion of the senate
hearing on foreign
relations, in regards to
violence and rape
against women in
conflict zones.
Injured, the Congolese
Basketball Player Jean-Jacques
Dikembe Mutombo bows out, after
18 years of a successful story
May 14th 2009 -
By Jeune Afrique-Georges
Dougueli
Forced out by an injury
to his right knee during
last playoffs,
Jean-Jacques Dikembe
Mutombo, 42 years old,
announces on April 22 he
was ending his long and
successful career. This
African legend’s retreat
comes in place after
eighteen years of a very
prominent basketball
career.
Senate’s Foreign Relations
Committee’s Hearing and Art
Exhibition By Franklin
Katunda.
Washington DC, The Capitol Hill.
May 13th 2009
Washington DC, The
Capitol Hill. May 13th
2009 -- “With 80 percent
of consumer electronics
companies trading on US
stock markets, US
based-activists have
some of the most
powerful opportunities
for leverage on this
part of the supply
chain”, articulates John
Pendergast, Activist and
co-founder of Enough
Project. He and three
other panelists
testified before the US
Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations last
Wednesday May 13th
2009. The panel spoke
before the US Congress
on Capitol Hill and
happened to be a
selection of US
Congo-based NGO
representatives, a
Congolese Journalist and
a Sudanese Activist,
whom both witnessed
atrocities in war torn
regions of Sudan and the
Democratic Republic of
the Congo.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
2:00 PM
Play and
Panel Discussion Manhattan
Theatre Club New York City
Center 130 West 56th Street New
York, NY 10019Sunday, June 14,
2009 2:00 PM Play and Panel
Discussion Manhattan Theatre
Club New York City Center 130
West 56th Street New York, NY
10019
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ticket!
The
drumbeats are distant
now, but they will grow
louder. Soon they will
be coming out of your
mobile phone, screaming
in your ear that by dint
of using your cellular
device, you are
complicit in the murder,
torture and rape of
millions in the remote
eastern edge of the
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.
A
layout of specifics, Numbers,
and Actions By Franklin Katunda.
Dallas TX,
May 1st, 2009 --
President Obama’s 100
days report has a couple
of milestones set to
sustain the remainder of
his four years term in
the executive realms of
our country; from
initiatives such as the
middle class tax cuts
plan to the healthcare
and the education
reforms. This year
job losses compete with
the creation of new ones
that the stimulus
package has projected in
creating.
Jacques
Depelchin is
disturbed by
There is no
Congo, a paper
by Jeffrey
Herbst and Greg
Mills, which
proposes
changing the
borders of the
Democratic
Republic of
Congo (DRC) and
splitting it
among its
surrounding
countries to
resolve the
ongoing
conflict.
Depelchin argues
that 'the
central idea is
to promote the
interests of
Rwanda, which
has been
anointed as the
best
manager/protector
of global
corporate
mining/predatory
ventures in
Central Africa'
with Rwanda's
interests
identified
under the label of security and
not predation. The paper says
Depelchin, makes the case for
just 'writing off' DRC as if it
were a piece of property whose
losses were impacting too
negatively on the performance of
the larger operation, rather
than basing a solution on
generally sentiment among the
Congolese people - to keep the
country united.
This has been written in
response to There is no Congo,
written by Jeffrey Herbst
(provost of University in Ohio)
and Greg Mills (director of the
Johannesburg-based Brenthurst
Foundation).
