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• Congo Kinshasa (DRC)

  Africa: How Kabila and the mining giants went from best friends to adversaries

  27 September 2018, by KABEMBA Claude , KAMBALE Pascal

  Will Congo’s new mining code benefit future generations? Analysts are sceptical.
  For much of this year, two of the most powerful forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been engaged in a tense standoff. President Joseph Kabila, the country’s powerful political leader since 2001, is (...)

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  BRICS in Africa: China eyes the Congo River

  9 April 2014, 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 (...)

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  Congo: Partition talk – “Those who talk about partition of the Congo as a solution are offering a prescription for expanded and continued violence”

  7 December 2012, 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 (...)

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  Congo & Patrice Lumumba: Still no light in the heart of darkness after 50 years

  19 January 2011, by McCANN Eamonn

  Killing democracy in Congo: Eamonn McCann marks the 50^th anniversary of the murder of the Congo’s first democratically elected prime minister, Patrice Lumumba. Yesterday’s 50^th anniversary of the killing of Patrice Lumumba has put a new focus on the wars still raging in the Congo. The conflicts (...)

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  FG Hemisphere vulture fund’s latest victory against the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). What is Belgium doing?

  21 December 2010, 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 (...)

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  Speak out against rape in the Congo!

  February 2008, 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 (...)

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  DRC: a demonstration of plunder and submission

  6 July 2007, 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 (...)