, by AMISI Baruti
New development projects along the Congo River are bound to restore colonialist structures and looting of resources in the DRC. These will benefit elite companies and countries, but fail to prioritise poverty and access by the poor - serving only as a repressive tool to locals.
The Congo River (...)
, by PODUR Justin
When Belgium realized in the 1950s that, given that France and Britain were losing their African colonies, it would no longer be able to hold on to Congo, it set about trying to guarantee continued control over the strategic aspects of the economy, especially the mines. At first, it sponsored (...)
, by McCANN Eamonn
Killing democracy in Congo: Eamonn McCann marks the 50th anniversary of the murder of the Congo’s first democratically elected prime minister, Patrice Lumumba. Yesterday’s 50th anniversary of the killing of Patrice Lumumba has put a new focus on the wars still raging in the Congo. The conflicts (...)
, by VIVIEN Renaud
Vulture funds continue to wreak havoc in the countries of the South. Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has to pay the price by losing a new lawsuit against the FG Hemisphere Hedge Fund before a court in Jersey. Unfortunately, this new wound was predictable.
In fact, FG Hemisphere always uses (...)
, by Against the Current
WHICH CURRENT WAR has taken more lives than the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Darfur put together?
It’s the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a brutal conflict whose elements include the “dirty diamond” trade and other minerals — including gold, copper, tin and cobalt — as well as (...)
, by MILLET Damien, TOUSSAINT Éric
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a textbook case for those who wish to understand complex notions like the pillage of a country’s wealth, the intolerable loss of a State’s sovereignty, or the concept of odious debt. The manner in which the budget of 2007 was prepared and the (...)
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