United States involvement in Congo and the Credit Crunch

Afshin Rattansi speaks to Congolese journalist, Antoine Roger Lokongo, London-based Congolese journalist.

Congo conflict not just “tribes fighting”

Press TV’s Will Yong interviews journalist Tony Iltis on the Rwanda-backed proxy war in Congo that is supported by the West and presented by the media as an “ethnic” civil war.

Thousands flee from DR Congo – 8 Nov 2008

Al-Jazeera: The United Nations has accused rebel troops in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo of murdering civilians in the northern provinve of Kivu.

Hubert Védrine et les mensonges de Kagamé et de Nkunda

Pour Hubert Védrine, le génocide rwandais de 1994 et les affrontements qui l’ont suivi sont directement liés à la conquête du Kivu.

Hope Afloat for Congo

Keith Harmon Snow, journalist.

Inside Story – Crisis in DR Congo – Nov 2 2008 – part 1

AlJazeeraEnglish – The UN is to send a convoy of food and medical supplies to help the 250,000 people displaced by recent fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Thousands of people have been displaced in east…

Inside Story – Crisis in DR Congo – Nov 2 2008 – part 2

AlJazeeraEnglish – The UN is to send a convoy of food and medical supplies to help the 250,000 people displaced by recent fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Thousands of people have been displaced in east…

[Channel 4 News] Horror of Congo’s forgotten war 2008.03.27

Horror of Congo’s forgotten war, By Jonathan Miller

Documentaire: THE GREATEST SILENCE: RAPE IN THE CONGO (HBO)

The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
( Winner – Special Jury Prize – Documentary – Sundance Festival )
Today, in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, rape is taking place on a scale that is almost unimaginable. In the last ten years, hundreds of thousands of women and girls have been raped – but their suffering goes unacknowledged. Instead, they are invisible, shamed and mute.

This is the story of one filmmaker’s crusade to break the silence surrounding this shocking reality, armed with a firsthand connection with the women and men she meets.

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Congo’s Curse (2007) – Part 1

(IRIN Film & TV) – In 1998 war broke out in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Within weeks six other countries had been drawn into the conflict and scores of militias had sprung up in a battle for resources and regional power.

By May 2003 most foreign troops had been withdrawn but scores of armed groups remained.

Countless millions of people have been displaced, denied an education or access to health care. As many as four million people have lost their lives.

Those left behind have no one else but God to call on for help.

“Congo has fallen into the hands of the Devil! But if we return it to the hands of God, magnificent things will happen. Gold help us. Amen.”

At Mongbwalu mine, in the northeastern district of Ituri, beneath the soils and hard labour of these young men and boys, lies Congo’s curse – Gold.