My impression has always been more:
https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/0*dSW6nP7nemg4iG0p.jpg
― Sanpaku, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 21:06 (six years ago) link
mama and baby gorillas <3
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link
it's a country of great pain and great beauty xp
― Mordy, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 21:08 (six years ago) link
a land of contrasts.................
― ogmor, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 21:33 (six years ago) link
Kabila leaving presidency after 17 years. I wonder what the catch is.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 August 2018 15:07 (five years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/world/africa/joseph-kabila-congo.html
Ebola still a problem though too
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 August 2018 15:09 (five years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/world/africa/congo-election-tshisekedi-fayulu.html
never ending :/
― Mordy, Friday, 11 January 2019 15:17 (five years ago) link
obviously any political change is likely to be fraught at best but is this necessarily a bad thing long term?
― ogmor, Friday, 11 January 2019 16:22 (five years ago) link
hopefully it doesn't devolve into violence. generally speaking yeah i feel like peaceful transitions of power are a sign of a stabile society. but whether it remains stable is the key.
― Mordy, Friday, 11 January 2019 16:40 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/12/raf-veteran-admitted-killing-un-secretary-general-dag-hammarskjold-in-1961
― ogmor, Saturday, 12 January 2019 19:26 (five years ago) link
If anyone knows of any reading that deals with the later colonial period up to mobutu's takeover I'd be grateful for some recommendations
― ogmor, Sunday, 13 January 2019 22:56 (five years ago) link
― ogmor, 12. januar 2019 20:26 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The director is Danish and I hate his latest films so much and have planned to write a character assassination piece for years when I got the chance. But it sounds like he has figured out why he went wrong lately and actually made something really important. And it pisses me off :(
― Frederik B, Monday, 14 January 2019 10:02 (five years ago) link
(Reuters) - Conflict and escalating violence have uprooted a record 6.9 million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, mostly in the east of the country, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Monday.
Years of rebel conflict and recurrent natural disasters have helped fuel one of the largest humanitarian crises in the world.
Most of those forced to flee their homes live in the eastern provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu, Ituri and Tanganyika, according to the data collected by the United Nations.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 31 October 2023 19:47 (five months ago) link
https://www.africanews.com/2023/10/30/un-says-record-69-million-people-internally-displaced-in-the-dr-congo/
Tutsis and militias loyal to government are fighting again
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 31 October 2023 19:50 (five months ago) link
Been seeing more social media posts about Eastern Congo issues but not any new ideas about what to do
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 20:09 (five months ago) link
What is happening in the Congo is a proxy war waged by regional and external powers...watch here 👇🏿 https://t.co/PUiKUuvoqk— K.Diallo ☭ (@nyeusi_waasi) November 11, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 11 November 2023 12:33 (five months ago) link