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From Capitol Hill to the State Department, A Letter on DR Congo’s Conflict

   

 
June 3, 2009, Washington DC--  

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.


An African “Hall of Fame” in America

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.


 

SPOTLIGHT on DR CONGO and SUDAN

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.   

   

 
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DRC SPECIAL 

Street Talk: A Conflict Mineral Bill Tries to Walk a Fine Line
 Children of DRC
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
 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
 
 
Obama’s 100 days: What’s in it for me?   
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.
 
Congo-Kinshasa: Erasing Congo At the Stroke of a Pen
Jacques Depelchin 23 April 2009
--About the Author
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).
 
 

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